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Journalist and police guard killed in southern Mexico

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An Indian Muslim boy wears a protective mask in the colors of the Indian national flag, leaves after offering Eid al-Adha prayer at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug.1, 2020. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, by sacrificing animals to commemorate the prophet Ibrahim's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The Latest: China’s Xinjiang region has 28 new cases

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Artisans offer their crafts for sale demanding economic help from the government after their livelihood was severely affected by the new coronavirus lockdown, in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. With the country facing a deep economic recession, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pushed to reopen the economy quickly even as COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to rise. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico economy dropped 18.9% in 2nd quarter

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Doctor Alejandra Antonio peers out from the triage consultation area to check whether any patients are waiting, at a COVID-19 hospital in Military Camp 1, in Naucalpan, Mexico State, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Mexico City, the sprawling capital of 9 million residents and the epicenter of the country’s epidemic with nearly a quarter of Mexico’s confirmed infections, has nine times more intensive care beds now than it started the year with. But people are dying at a worrisome rate. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico to create drug purchasing agency amid shortages

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning press conference in front of the former presidential plane at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Monday, July 27, 2020. The president, who only flies commercial as one measure in his austerity government, has been trying to sell the plane since he took office. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Vehicles burned in Mexico to protest US water payment

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, CEO of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), attends a meeting in Paris, France. The former head of Mexico's state oil company was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 in Spain on a international warrant issued by Mexico, authorities in both countries said. Mexico issued international arrest warrants against Lozoya in 2019 as a result of corruption investigations, including into his alleged ties to Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction company that secured contracts across Latin America through a network of bribes. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)

Former oil boss faces more charges in Mexico corruption case

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In this Jan. 12, 2020, photo, flowers placed by relatives remain where one of the cars belonging to the extended LeBaron family was ambushed by gunmen last year near Bavispe, Sonora state, Mexico. Relatives of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community who were killed in Mexico in November filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, July 23, 2020, in North Dakota, against the Juarez drug cartel. The lawsuit accuses the cartel of attacking the family members in retribution for their public criticism and protests against the cartel. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) **FILE**

Family of 9 slain Mexican-Americans sues Juarez drug cartel

By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, former head of Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, gives a press conference in Mexico City. Lozoya, who was arrested in February 2020 by Spanish police on an international warrant issued by Mexico, has dropped his extradition fight and agreed to return to Mexico to cooperate in corruption investigations, according to Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras, File)

1st hearing in ‘watershed’ graft case of Mexico oil chief

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Order reuniting asylum seekers with family in US appealed

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Mexico seizes 2nd lot of fentanyl in medical capsules

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Rosa Maria Chue, right, and one of her daughters, Diana Victoria, who are visiting from Mexico, chats with her husband long-distance trucker Eduardo Victoria Morales via video chat at Aiken Regional Medical Centers on July 17, 2020, in Aiken. S.C. Chue's husband and Victoria's dad, Eduardo Victoria Morales, spent 15 days in Aiken Regional Medical Centers as a COVID-19 patient, unable to have any visitors in person, but still able to communicate via phone and through his hospital window. (Bill Bengston/The Aiken Standard via AP)

From Mexico with love: Family travels to help virus patient

By BILL BENGSTON and Aiken Standard - Associated Press

UN refugee agency to install housing units in Mexico

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Ana Dominguez stands outside her mobile home near Leadville, Colo., on Thursday, July 16, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has virtually shut down the region's tourism industry, which provides jobs for Dominguez and hundreds of other immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries (Nathaniel Minor/Colorado Public Radio via AP)

In Leadville, coronavirus closures expose economy inequity

By NATHANIEL MINOR - Associated Press

Chris Headen battles with his umbrellas as Hurricane Hanna begins to make landfall, Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday morning that Hanna's maximum sustained winds had increased and that it was expected to make landfall Saturday afternoon or early evening. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

South Texas drenched by cyclone amid surge in virus cases

By JOHN L. MONE and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Allen Heath surveys the damage to a private marina after it was hit by Hurricane Hanna, Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Heath's boat and about 30 others were lost or damaged. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Cleanup from Hanna spurs fear amid COVID-19 surge in Texas

By JOHN L. MONE and JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Mexico: Group missing after attack in Puerto Vallarta

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FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City on April 5, 2020. The countries which top the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders like Obrador. The U.S., Brazil, the United Kingdom and Mexico all are led by leaders who have been skeptical of the scientists and who initially minimized the disease. And their four countries alone account for half of the total 585,000 COVID-19 deaths worldwide so far, according to statistics tracked by Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexico president happy as focus shifts to predecessors

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Axayacatl Figueroa, who recovered after suffering from COVID-19, walks by a neighborhood food stand in Brooklyn, New York, Monday, July 6, 2020. Figueroa, who emigrated to New York in 2005 from Mexico's San Jerónimo Xayacatlán, leaving behind his wife and son, recovered after three weeks, but lost his full-time job in the kitchen of a Vietnamese restaurant and returned part-time. Before coronavirus, he sent up to $400 home every month. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico — and virus warnings

By Claudia Torrens and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, July 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican transport minister resigns in dispute with president

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Magnolia Ortega, center, stands outside a Western Union with her husband Arturo Morales and their daughter Marlene after wiring money to her family in Mexico, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Staten Island, New York. Ortega lost her job cleaning houses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the monthly amount she sends home. She's considering returning to her hometown of San Jeronimo Xayacatlan but says there's no work there either and that would mean one less family member sending back one less monthly check. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Virus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to hometown

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press