A mayor-elect from the Institutional Revolutionary Party that scored a comeback in recent elections was found shot dead on Sunday with an aide in northern Mexico, officials said.

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Police found eight decomposing bodies on Friday inside a car abandoned by a waterpark in northern Mexico, a day after authorities in a neighboring state located a sports utility vehicle with 14 bodies

A 6.0 magnitude quake struck off Mexico's Pacific coast close to the Guatemala border on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

The quake occurred at 1222 GMT at a depth

Seven miners were killed on Wednesday in an explosion at a coal mine in northern Mexico, police said.

"We confirm the recovery of the bodies of the seven trapped miners," local police official Franc

The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million poultry.

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Enrique Pena Nieto, the new face of the party that governed Mexico for seven decades, won Sunday's presidential election by a wide margin, according to exit polls carried by local media.

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Mexican doctors say they have removed a 33-pound (15-kilogram) tumor from the body of a 2-year-old child who weighed only 26 pounds (12 kilograms).

A bus plunged into a 300 meter (900 foot) ravine on a road in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 23 others, authorities said.

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After searching for months for cash, the IMF looks able to firm up a huge emergency 'firewall' fund for crisis prevention after China said on Sunday that big emerging economies would chip in.

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Hurricane Carlotta strengthened to a category two storm on Friday as it barreled toward Mexico's Pacific Coast, US monitors warned.

The storm was packing winds of 105 miles (170 kilometers) per hour