More violence in Mexico's war on drug cartels: A car exploded in Monterrey, Mexico in an area that's seen a spike in violence. No one was injured, but the explosion caused extensive property damage. Investigators say a military convoy was chasing a suspicious vehicle and a small car exploded as the convoy passed. Police in Monterrey are trying to determine if the car was packed with explosives or if someone threw grenades at the car. Monterrey has seen more drug violence since early last...

Two men have been charged in what law enforcement officials say was a bombing plot in the United States approved by senior members Iran's Revolutionary Guard Quds Force. The plot targeted the Saudi ambassador to the United States for assassination and may have included other targets including the Israeli embassy, ABC News reports. During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called the plot's details chilling, saying the suspects didn't care that they...

Reporters Without Borders today praised speedy action to solve last month’s robbery-murder in Mexico City last month of two women journalists and said it hoped the authorities would show the same efficiency in clearing up killings of other journalists targeted because of their work. Two men - Oscar Yair Quiñones Emmer (29) and Lázaro Hernández Ángeles (26) - were arrested on 30 September and 1 October suspected of killing journalists Ana María Marcela...

The decapitated body of María Elizabeth Macías, the editor of Primera Hora, a daily based in Nuevo Laredo (in the eastern state of Tamaulipas), was found on 24 September. Aged 39, she was the fourth woman journalist to be murdered in Mexico since the start of the year. The previous three women victims were former Televisa reporter Rocio González Trápaga and Ana María Marcela Yarce Viveros, the editor of the weekly magazine Contralínea, who were killed...

A controversial documentary that cast a harsh light on the Mexican judicial system won an Emmy on Monday night. The film, “Presumed Guilty,” showed the unjust prosecution of a Mexico City salesman, José Antonio Zúñiga, who was accused of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to 20 years in prison. In a ceremony from the Lincoln Center, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that “Presumed Guilty” had won the Emmy for...

Mexico City, Sep 23, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- No one was hurt when a homemade bomb exploded here early Friday outside an office of Mexico's CFE electric utility, the state-owned company said. The blast occurred shortly after midnight Thursday near the door of a customer service office in the capital borough of Iztacalco, the CFE said in a statement. The explosion damaged the office's facade and entrance hall, according to the statement, which said authorities are investigating the...

The bloodied bodies of a man and a woman were found hanging from a bridge in the northeast Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo Tuesday, along with two posters left nearby warning social media users about reporting on the drug war. Bloggers who write about Mexico’s ongoing drug war have been threatened in the past, but this is believed to be the first time that users of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook have been targeted by the cartels. The posters also called out by...

Two social network users, Gilberto Martínez Vera, 35, and María de Jesús Bravo Pagola, 34, have been detained in Xalapa, in the eastern state of Veracruz, since 25 August on charges of terrorism and sabotage for posting messages on Twitter and Facebook about the possibility of an organized crime attack on a Veracruz school. They are facing the possibility of a sentence of 3 to 30 years in prison, a fine equivalent to 750 days of their salaries and suspension of their...

Mexican authorities say two female journalists were found murdered south of Mexico City Thursday. They say the women's bodies were found in a park in Iztapalapa, south of the capital. One victim is Ana Maria Marcela Yarce Viveros, founder of investigative magazine Contralinea. The second, is Rocio Gonzalez, who used to work for broadcaster Televisa. Reuters news agency says a Contralinea spokesman says both women were naked with their hands and feet tied. Authorities believe...

From left to right: Carlos Carrazco Espinoza y Javier Alonso Martínez. Jonathan Jahir Reyna, Juan Ángel Leal, Julio Tadeo Berrones. Mexican authorities have arrested five alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel for their role in a deadly attack on a Monterrey casino. Some 52 patrons of the Casino Royale were killed when gunmen stormed the building and used gasoline to light on fire on Thursday. Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina held a press conference early Monday...