MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say two state police officers and six other people are dead following a gunfight in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero. State prosecutors spokesman Randy Suastegui says gunmen fired on state police who were responding to a reported kidnapping Thursday afternoon near Ometepec. Suastegui says …

DAKAR, Senegal – Senegal is sending 2,100 troops to help back the military intervention led by Saudi Arabia that is underway in Yemen, becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to contribute soldiers to the effort, the country’s foreign minister said Monday. The decision to deploy soldiers was announced by Foreign …

HUANTA, Peru – The lung-searing ascents into the Andean highlands aren’t what worry the untold hundreds of young men who hump backpacks loaded with drugs out of the remote, lawless valley that produces about 60 percent of Peru’s cocaine. Armed gangs, crooked police and rival backpacker groups regularly rob cocaine’s …

Like parents wrangling with a rebellious kid, the entertainment industry is cracking down on Internet pirates with punishments and tough love. Record labels are threatening to sue individual file swappers and even throw them in jail, while film studios are running educational ads teaching that piracy is morally wrong and …

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HONG KONG – Several hundred Cathay Pacific flight attendants are camped inside Hong Kong’s airport after union members voted for industrial action to protest their treatment by the airline. Union member Ada So said Tuesday that about 400 cabin staff were camped out in front of the Cathay check-in desks. …

Dear Viewers, Hot off the GretaWire: One Miss America contestant — I can’t tell you who — said she got flowers three nights ago from one of the Democratic candidates for president! This candidate is obviously “covering all bases!” The first night of preliminary competition began Tuesday. It started withMiss …

TEMECULA, Calif. – A mountain lion that was tranquilized after it wandered into the parking lot of a Southern California mall has died. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/1DT976j ) reports that authorities were called after people saw the animal Friday morning outside a Macy’s department store in Temecula. State Fish and …

MORRILTON, Ark. – Arkansas Parks Director Greg Butts says bone fragments and skeletal remains have been found in a rugged area of Petit Jean Mountain where the skull of missing Little Rock businessman John Glasgow was found. The skull was found Wednesday by hikers and identified through dental records as …

Constant moves and long, dangerous deployments overseas can make having a personal life “Mission: Impossible” for military singles. But in this online age, patriotic lonely hearts can turn to dating Web sites to find true love. “We’re the Cupids of the military world right now,” said Donald Hobbs, marketing director …