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HONG KONG – Chinese state media have blasted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers for being “destroyers” of democratic development a day after they shot down Beijing’s election blueprint for the British former colony. The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper published an editorial Friday deploring the vote and accusing the pro-democracy …

An asylum seeker from Mexico suffered a miscarriage after she tripped and fell while shackled in immigration detention, even though pregnant detainees are not supposed to be restrained, her lawyers said. Monserrat Ruiz was given a pregnancy test after arriving at an immigration detention facility in Bakersfield, California, in May, …

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero say they have found 10 bodies in clandestine graves on the outskirts of the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco. State prosecutors spokesman Randy Suastegui said Monday that three women were among the dead. He said authorities have been examining …