Enrique Pena Nieto

Two Mexicans and 10 others were killed in Egypt after they were attacked by the country’s security forces in the western desert. A statement released by the Egyptian interior ministry said a joint policy and military force was chasing terrorist elements in the area when it “accidentally engaged four four-wheel drives belonging to a Mexican tourist group.”

Egypt said its security forces killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, after mistakenly targeting their four-vehicle convoy while pursuing jihadists in the country's Western Desert.
 

Mexican authorities insisted on Sept.7 that a large number of the 43 students who disappeared last year were incinerated at a landfill, after an independent probe contradicted the official conclusion.

Mexico's government offered a $3.8 million reward for the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on July 13 and sacked top prison officials amid suspicions that guards helped him escape.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum-security prison outside Mexico City, authorities said on July 12, a second jail break in 14 years that deals an embarrassing blow to the government.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's party retained its simple majority in Congress on June 7 despite his falling approval ratings and violent election day protests in several states.

Violence in the run-up to Mexico's mid-term elections this weekend has killed at least seven candidates and forced another 20 out of the race, battering the government's record on law and order. 

One of Mexico's most popular journalists said March 19 she suspects the government was behind her firing because of her report about the first lady's controversial purchase of a mansion.
      

An influential Mexican broadcast journalist whose report about the first lady's mansion caused a scandal was sacked Sunday, sparking anger among supporters who called her firing an affront to freedom of speech.
      
Carmen Aristegui had been publicly feuding with her employer, MVS Radio, in recent days after two of her investigative reporters were fired by the company.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an on Feb. 12 criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for his silence following the killings of three young Muslims in North Carolina this week, in the latest sign relations between the two leaders have become strained.