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The first day of school is providing challenges for major U.S. cities that are struggling with the influx of tens of thousands of migrants

With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will have for the first time two women from its main political powers competing for the presidency

IN THE PRESS – Thursday, September 7: We look at reactions from the local press after Mexico's governing and opposition parties nominate female candidates ahead of next year's presidential election. Also: Great Britain is not so great as the British weeklies deplore the "crumbling" state of the country. Indian Prime…

Landmark ruling is extention of growing ‘green wave’ in Latin America

‘We need to wait to see how this is going to be applied and how far it reaches,’ said one campaigner

A Mexican Supreme Court ruling that invalidated all federal criminal penalties for abortion continued a regional trend of widening access to the procedure, but left in place a patchwork of varying state restrictions

With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will have for the first time two women from its main political powers competing for the presidency

Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and senator Xóchitl Gálvez were selected as the candidates for the two major electoral groups

The former mayor of Mexico City will be the dominant ruling party’s presidential candidate, making it highly likely that the country will elect its first female president next year

The ruling is a win for the Biden administration, which sued the state over floating barriers criticised by Mexico.

Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure