Mexico City - Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim and Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Monday in Mexico City that the bank for the poor will begin to operate in Mexico with an initial capital of 45 million dollars.
The foundation led by Slim - ranked by Forbes magazine in March as the world's second-richest man with an estimated wealth of 60 billion dollars behind investor Warren Buffett - is set to provide 5 million dollars of initial capital and 40 million dollars in loans.
Mexico City - An estimated 152 bystanders, including more than 40 children, were killed this year in Mexico's ongoing drug wars, the Mexican daily El Universal reported Monday.
The deaths of men, women and children - who had no links to the drug gangs - were caused by stray bullets and attacks by both criminals and security forces, the report said.
Mexico City - Radio newsreader Alejandro Fonseca died early Wednesday following an armed attack as he was putting up posters protesting the violence that has plagued Mexico.
Late Tuesday, Fonseca had been putting up signs saying "No To Kidnappings" in the centre of Villahermosa, the capital of the state of Tabasco where his programme airs. He was shot in the chest by unknown attackers travelling in a van.
He was still alive when he was taken to hospital, where he died hours later.
Mexico City - An armed commando kidnapped 10 members of one family in a rural area of the Mexican state of Michoacan, in western Mexico, early Tuesday, according to media reports.
Michoacan, the native state of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, is among the most troubled by drug violence in Mexico. Last week, an attack on a crowded public celebration of Mexican independence left eight people dead and some 130 injured in the state capital, Morelia.
Mexico City - A bus crashed into a runaway circus elephant on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 10, police said.
The four-ton female elephant also died, and was left lying on the road that links Mexico City to the pyramids of Teotihuacan.
"I untied her so she could eat. She had never done this before, but she suddenly rushed to break the gate. I could not stop her," the animal's caretaker, Marcelino Ramos, 22, told Mexican media.
Mexico City - Public prosecutors suspect that some of the 24 men found murdered 10 days back near Mexico City were construction workers who were building a tunnel across the US border for the Sianloa drug cartel, it was reported Monday.
The workers were abducted from their homes in El Olivo, a poor suburb in western Mexico City on September 10. They were found dead two days later.
The previous week, police discovered a tunnel to transport drugs from Mexicali in Mexico to Calexico in the US state of California.
Mexico City - Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim and Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Monday in Mexico City that the bank for the poor will begin to operate in Mexico with an initial capital of 45 million dollars.
Mexico City - An estimated 152 bystanders, including more than 40 children, were killed this year in Mexico's ongoing drug wars, the Mexican daily El Universal reported Monday.
Mexico City - Radio newsreader Alejandro Fonseca died early Wednesday following an armed attack as he was putting up posters protesting the violence that has plagued Mexico.
Mexico City - An armed commando kidnapped 10 members of one family in a rural area of the Mexican state of Michoacan, in western Mexico, early Tuesday, according to media reports.
Mexico City - A bus crashed into a runaway circus elephant on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 10, police said.
Mexico City - Public prosecutors suspect that some of the 24 men found murdered 10 days back near Mexico City were construction workers who were building a tunnel across the US border for the Sianloa drug cartel, it was reported Monday.
