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  • ** FILE ** In this June 10, 1993, file photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, appears for reporters after his arrest at the high security prison of Almoloya de Juarez on the outskirts of Mexico City, from which he later escaped. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

    Daughter of Mexican drug lord held in San Diego

    The daughter of one of the world's most sought-after drug lords has been charged with trying to enter the United States on someone else's passport, U.S. officials said, becoming the latest family member to become ensnared in U.S. courts.


  • ** FILE ** Alleged Zeta drug cartel leader and founder Heriberto Lazcano is pictured in an undated photo downloaded from the most-wanted-criminals webpage of the Mexican attorney general's website. (AP Photo/Mexican Attorney General's Office)

    Official: Gunmen stole Zetas leader's body

    Mexican marines gunned down of one of Mexico's most feared drug lords outside a baseball game in a state on the Texas border, but the body was stolen from a funeral home in a pre-dawn raid by a group of armed men, officials said Tuesday.


  • World Briefs: Politicians agree to elect constitutional panel

    Egypt's political parties agreed Thursday on the formation of a commission tasked with drafting a new constitution, capping a row that lasted nearly three months, officials said.


  • Forensic experts examine the area in which 49 mutilated bodies were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in the town of San Juan, Mexico, on Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

    Mexico drug war's latest toll: 49 headless bodies

    Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the United States, a region in which Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.


  • Colombia sends suspect in singer slay to Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was expelled to Guatemala in connection with last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Suspect in slaying of singer arrives in Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel arrived Wednesday in Guatemala to face charges in last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Colombia expelling suspect in singer's murder

    A Costa Rican man arrested in last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral is being expelled to Guatemala for entering Colombia with false documents, a national police spokesman said Tuesday.


  • Colombia sends suspect in singer slay to Guatemala

    A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was being expelled to Guatemala on Tuesday in connection with last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral.


  • Briefly: Police nearly nab drug lord 'El Chapo'

    Much like the late Osama bin Laden, the man the U.S. calls the world's most powerful drug lord apparently has been hiding in plain sight.


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