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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s central bank says it will increase dollar auctions from $52 million to $200 million per day through the end of September to stabilize the badly weakened peso. The Bank of Mexico also announced it would lower the level of currency market volatility needed to trigger the …

MORELIA, Mexico – Mexican authorities say a 12-year-old boy shot dead earlier this week was killed far from the site of a clash between security forces and protesters. A report from the Michoacan state prosecutor’s office says the victim and four other people who suffered wounds were inside a restaurant …

CAIRO – The Saudi-led coalition says it will start a five-day humanitarian pause in Yemen on Sunday at one minute before midnight. The statement, carried on Saudi state media Saturday, says the pause came at the request of embattled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to Saudi’s King Salman. It …

RIO DE JANEIRO – When Estefanie Ferraz went to prison, she had been living as a woman for around a decade, had undergone more than half a dozen plastic surgeries including breast and cheek implants to enhance her feminine looks, and was saving up for a sex change operation. But …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they are working to clean sargassum seaweed from 112 miles (180 kilometers) of the country’s Caribbean coast and will try to prevent more from coming ashore. The Environment Department said Tuesday that the government is setting up air and sea monitoring of sargassum mats …

BEIJING – The nephew of lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng has been released from prison after serving a three-year, three-month sentence widely seen as retribution for his uncle’s daring escape from house arrest. Chen said in an email from the United States that Chen Kegui had returned to his home in eastern …

BEIJING – The lawyer for imprisoned Chinese journalist Gao Yu says she is in poor health and was recently taken to a hospital for examination. Gao is serving a seven-year sentence on charges of leaking a document detailing the Communist Party leadership’s resolve to aggressively target civil society and press …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Puerto Rico senator filed a resolution Friday that would reassign $94 million to the island’s Government Development Bank so it can make a bond payment that the U.S. territory missed earlier this week. Sen. Gilberto Rodriguez said the money would come from a fund …

BEIJING – Authorities say a landslide at a mining community in central China has buried several dormitories and some homes, trapping 40 people. The fire department in the mountainous county of Shanyang in Shaanxi province says 15 dormitories of the Wuzhou Mining Company were buried, along with three residential homes …

BANGKOK – Thousands of cyclists are being led through the streets of Bangkok by Thailand’s crown prince on a 43-kilometer (26-mile) tribute to his mother, Queen Sirikit, to mark her 83rd birthday. Sunday’s event, led by 62-year-old Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, was also an exercise in palace public relations at a …