MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican city.
Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez ordered flags on state buildings flown at half-staff and called for three days of mourning following the killing of Temixco Mayor Gisela Mota.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Saudi Arabia's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran may force the Islamic Republic to stop its citizens from going on the annual hajj pilgrimage, a prominent Iranian lawmaker said Monday, as world leaders sought to cool tensions between the two Mideast rivals.
The sharp escalation between the Sunni and Shiite powerhouses came after the ransacking of the kingdom's embassy in Tehran and the attack on a consulate elsewhere in Iran — violence that erupted in the wake of Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric over the weekend.
