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The presidential candidate for Mexico's ruling conservative party has said she'd invite President Felipe Calderon to be attorney-general if she won Sunday's vote, a surprise proposal made in the final hours of campaigning....

From here in the birthplace of the likely next president of Mexico, the mood was triumphant Sunday....

Millions of Mexican voters Sunday were weighing whether to return a longtime ruling party to power, 12 years after replacing it with conservatives who have left many disillusioned with the nation's democratic transition....

MEXICO CITY -- Millions of Mexicans voted Sunday to restore to power a once-authoritarian party they dumped 12 years ago, according to preliminary results, while also delivering a harsh rebuke to a government that advanced democratic rule but saw the...

MEXICO CITY -- The tiny but closely watched migrant segment of the Mexican electorate voted firmly for Josefina Vazquez Mota of the governing National Action Party (PAN), an opposite result to her third-place showing in the national race. The results...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is recounting votes cast at more than half its polling places during Sunday's presidential election, the electoral body announced Wednesday, as reports of vote-buying marred the apparent win of the former ruling Institutional...

A partial recount of the Mexican presidential vote has confirmed the victory of Enrique Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country for seven decades until being ousted in 2000....

The Times’ Barbara Demick recently reported on the surreal “virtual lockdown” of the Chinese village where blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped. Weeks after Chen fled, his village and nearby ones were ringed by anywhere...

Kirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&...

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox angered his party by offering a near-endorsement of the presidential candidate of the once-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which Fox ousted in 2000....

Whether a cosmic joke or coincidence -- or as some wags suggested, an act of God -- the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points on Monday, which happened to be June 4, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at...

China is reportedly telling foreign embassies to stop putting out their own readings on Chinese air pollution information. Though China didn't single out the United States, the demand appears to be aimed at the U.S. embassy, which puts out its own...