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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s governmental human rights commission says it condemns violent incidents like a shootout between federal police and suspected criminals that left 42 suspects and one policeman dead. The rights commission said Tuesday it has opened a formal investigation into last week’s shootout at a ranch in western …

JACKSON, Miss. – A deputy sheriff was attacked with a box cutter at a highway rest stop in Mississippi, and officials say his K-9 partner came to his rescue. Hancock County Chief Deputy Don Bass says assailants beat and cut Todd Frazier when he stopped to check on a parked …

CAIRO – The head of Egypt’s state human rights agency says 2,600 people, nearly half of them supporters of the nation’s ousted president, were killed in violence over an 18-month period starting June 30, 2013. Mohammed Fayeq, head of the National Council for Human Rights, told reporters Sunday that 700 …