The main contenders: Lopez Obrador (left), Vazquez Mota (centre) and Pena Nieto (right)
Mexican Voters Choose Next President -- Voice of America
Millions of Mexicans vote Sunday for their next president.
Polls show Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, heading for a landslide victory.
The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000, with a mix of corruption, electoral fraud and repression that Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa once called "the perfect dictatorship." The PRI has bounced back, helped by economic stagnation and a wave of lawlessness that have plagued Mexico under the conservative National Action Party, or PAN.
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MIDDLE EAST
Syrian opposition group: 800 killed in past week.
Syrians brand Geneva crisis talks a failure. Syrian opposition rejects UN transition plan.
Iran braces for EU embargo.
Iran's food costs soar and unemployment spirals as nuclear sanctions begin to bite.
Report: Iran to deploy submarines in Caspian Sea.
Surge in violence spurs new fears in Iraq.
Kuwait emir accepts government resignation.
Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies.
ASIA
Mass protests as Hong Kong marks 15 years under China.
Japan restarts first reactor since Fukushima crisis.
Burmese government demands opposition use 'Myanmar'.
Defected NKorea poet writes of hunger, desperation.
AFRICA
Mali Islamists destroy more holy Timbuktu sites.
Attacks on Kenyan churches kill 17. 16 killed in attacks on Kenya churches.
S. Sudan oil shutdown chokes economy.
Crisis grows at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan.
Tables turn as Egypt's Islamist president sworn in.
President al-Bashir feels heat from 'Sudanese Spring'.
Tunisia declares its Sahara desert area ‘closed military zone’ needing special travel permits.
EUROPE
David Cameron 'prepared to consider EU referendum'.
Cyprus sparks controversy as EU's next President.
Georgian President names new PM as elections loom.
Prince of Liechtenstein threatens to leave after vote on his powers.
Iceland's defiant president wins record fifth term.
AMERICAS
Polls open in Mexico's presidential election. Pocketbook issues weigh heavily as Mexicans vote. Mexico's new president: A heart-throb, a leftist or country's first female leader?
Power outages from deadly US storms could last days as heat wave continues.
Obama: Employ all resources to fight Colorado wildfires.
Ousted Paraguayan president Lugo calls removal ‘coup against democracy’.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
US drones strike again in the Shawal Valley. Drone aircraft kills eight suspected militants in Pakistan.
Yemeni troops kill al-Qaida militant.
Egyptian president wants 'Blind Sheikh' freed.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Iran calls for OPEC emergency meeting.
UK politicians: Banking system is corrupt.
Euro deal leaves deep divisions, lingering questions.
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