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A gunfight between suspected drug traffickers and Mexico army troops in the western state of Michoacan left eight of the alleged criminals dead, the defense ministry said on Tuesday. HT Image The gunbattle erupted around daybreak in the town of Tacambaro as troops patrolled the town and encountered the drug traffickers, officials said. Tropps moved to quell the attack, and eight of the assailants were kille
stanley cup d at the scene, the ministry said in a statement. Michoacan, home state to President Felipe Calderon, is one of the regions gripped by drug-related violence that has killed some 41,000 people since he launched a military crackdown on organized drug crime five years ago. It has been the stronghold of the La Familia, or The Family drug cartel, one of the seven main narco-trafficking organizations operating in Mexico, supposedly promoting family values and quasi-religious zealotry while using brutal enforcement methods. It is also the region where a new drug gang calling itself Knights Templar has emerged recently vowing to take over from La Familia, whose leader Nazario Moreno was killed last December. The president s sister Maria Luisa Calderon is a candidate for governor in Michoacan in ele
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US envoy Christopher Hill has said that North Korea is ready to disable its main nuclear facilities and reveal all of its nuclear programmes. HT Image The DPRK Democratic People s Republic of Korea indicated they are prepared to disable the Yongbyon facility as they had agreed to in February, nuclear negotiator Hill said on Friday at a joint press conference in Seoul with his South Korean counterpart, Chun Yung-woo. A team of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive in Pyongyang on Tuesday, IAEA Director General Mohamed El Baradei said on Friday evening in Vienna. Complete denuclearisation by North Korea can be achieved, said Hill after returning from Pyongyang where he held talks with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Kye-gwan, and Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun. Hill s two-day visit was the first by a high-ranking US official to North Korea in five years. The process, however, was a huge undertaking and we are going to have to spend a great deal of time, a great deal of effort, a lot of work in achieving these, he said. Chun said North Korea had welcomed the idea of resuming neg
adidas campus otiations at the beginning of July. China s official Xinhua news agency quoted Hill as saying that he had discussed all aspects of th
stanley cup e six-nations process with the two North Korean ministers. I think we re talking about trying to have a six-party meeting as so
af1 on as possible, Hill said, adding that he had no specific date planned for resuming the nuclear d
