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In Mexico, gay couples celebrate historic weddings (AP)
AP - Two glowing brides in white gowns made history Thursday as they wed under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.
US Customs: Mexican cartels corrupt border agents (AP)
AP - Customs officials say Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border, and those charged with weeding them out say they don't have the money to catch every corrupt agent.
BP to pay Devon $7 billion for oil fields (Reuters)
Reuters - BP will pay $7 billion to Devon Energy for assets that will extend its reach into Brazil and bulk up its position in the Gulf of Mexico, as the world's top oil companies look to acquisitions to refill depleting reserves.
Mexico drug gang hushes killings with news blackout (Reuters)
Reuters - A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border in the latest attack on the media in Mexico.
Press group: 8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city (AP)
AP - Eight journalists were kidnapped in a northern Mexican border city over a period of two weeks in a wave of abductions unprecedented in the Western Hemisphere, the Inter-American Press Association reported.
Mexican Carlos Slim world's richest in new ranking (AFP)
AFP - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has dethroned Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world wealthiest person and China is fast catching up with the number of US billionaires on the annual Forbes rich list.
BP wins foothold in Brazil with Â£4.7 bln deal (AFP)
AFP - Oil giant BP said Thursday it will pay US firm Devon Energy $7 billion (Â£4.7 billion) for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person (AP)
AP - The naming of Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim as the world's richest person — the first from a developing nation — underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.
BP to pay Â£4.7 bln for Devon Energy assets (AFP)
AFP - Oil giant BP said Thursday it will pay US firm Devon Energy $7 billion (Â£4.7 billion) for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico.
2 teens wanted in 2009 killing found in Mexico (AP)
AP - Two fugitive teenagers wanted in the 2009 killing of a 16-year-old boy have been found in Mexico and returned to authorities in Riverside County after a four-month manhunt.
World's mega-rich adding wealth, Carlos Slim No. 1 (Reuters)
Reuters - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 percent over the last year, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
5 of 6 killed in Ariz. bus crash were Californians (AP)
AP - Authorities say five of the six people killed in an Arizona bus crash were California residents, and all were Mexican citizens.
US-born capo, drug lord's brother fight for cartel (AP)
AP - Authorities say a U.S.-born hitman is fighting the brother of a deceased drug lord for control of the Beltran-Leyva cartel, marking what may be the first time an American has risen to the very top ranks of Mexican gangs.
LA cops seek man who robbed Florida sugar baron (AP)
AP - A well-dressed man who talked his way into a Florida sugar baron's hotel room and stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry may be the same person who pulled similar scams on a Mexican soccer team, a salsa band and an Israeli basketball team when they visited Los Angeles, police said Tuesday.
Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill (AP)
AP - An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.
Obama criticized for Mexico, Brazil sanctions (Reuters)
Reuters - Republicans and business groups on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's administration for failing to resolve a cross-border trucking dispute nearly one year after Mexico slapped retaliatory duties on about $2.4 billion worth of U.S. exports.
Man pleads not guilty in Colo. to smuggling drugs (AP)
AP - A man charged with helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Mexico to the United States has pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court.
Lawyers in Mexico church sex abuse case resign (AP)
AP - A Mexican lawyer said Monday he has resigned from handling the case of a woman and her sons who claim the males were sexually abused as boys by the founder of a conservative Roman Catholic religious order.
Mexico's Maciel Sex Abuse Focuses on Legion of Christ (Time.com)
Time.com - Will new revelations about the Mexican priest force the Pope to launch an investigation of the controversial Legion of Christ?
Catholic church slams Mexico City's leftist mayor (AP)
AP - Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has published its harshest criticism to date of leftist Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, accusing his administration of botching issues ranging from crime to public transit.

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