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Tijuana drug chief held after shootout

MEXICO CITY — Soldiers and federal police arrested a reputed leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel after a shootout in the border city across from San Diego, authorities announced Sunday.

Eduardo Arellano Felix, 52, was captured Saturday night together with his 11-year-old daughter, Assistant Secretary of Public Safety Facundo Rosas told reporters.

The suspect was flown to Mexico City. The U.S. State Department once offered $5 million for his capture.

Rosas said that Arellano Felix and his sister Enedina Arellano Felix took over the drug clan's leadership after several of their brothers were arrested or killed.

"The generation of brothers who formed this criminal organization has been dissolved," Rosas said.

He said Enedina's son, Luis Fernando Sanchez Arellano, has taken over the cartel's operations.

Tijuana, once clearly the gang's home turf, has become a focal point of soaring violence between rival organized crime groups and often outgunned authorities..

CHINA

Hong Kong testing more Chinese foods

The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted Hong Kong authorities to expand testing to include meat products imported from China, a senior official said Sunday.

The move follows the announcement late Saturday that Hong Kong testers had found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in imported eggs produced by a division of China's Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group. The legal limit for melamine in foodstuffs in Hong Kong is 2.5 ppm.

Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said the melamine may have come from feed given to the chickens that laid the eggs.

"The preliminary opinion experts have given us is that there is a problem with the feed," Chow told reporters Saturday.

The egg results have prompted officials to expand food testing to meat imports from China, Chow told reporters Sunday. He said Hong Kong officials will step up checks of eggs imported from China.

BRITAIN

Prince Charles is on state visit to Japan

LONDON — Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, will begin a five-day visit to Japan today as part of celebrations to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce.

During his official visit, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall will dine with the Emperor and Empress and meet with Prime Minister Taro Aso.

Following his visit, the prince, 59, will go on to visit Brunei and Indonesia, but Camilla, 61, will fly home before the Indonesia visit..

Mild earthquake near Worcester

LONDON — Authorities say western England has been shaken by a mild earthquake that doesn't appear to have caused any damage.

Roger Musson of the British Geological Survey says the epicenter of Sunday's 3.6-magnitude quake was near the town of Worcester, 135 miles northwest of London.

In February, a 5.3-magnitude temblor hit Lincolnshire, 125 miles north of London.

LITHUANIA

Anti-Russia party wins election

VILNIUS — Lithuania's election commission says a conservative party critical of Russia has won the Baltic country's parliamentary vote.

The Homeland Union won both rounds of the election, including Sunday's runoff.

The commission says that with 99 percent of the votes counted, the Homeland Union won 44 seats in the 141-member Parliament, while the governing Social Democrats won 26 seats.

The conservatives are expected to form a coalition with three smaller center-right parties.

Lithuania has had 14 governments since breaking free from the Soviet Union in 1991. The country of 3.4 million people joined the European Union and NATO in 2004.

BRAZIL

Sao Paulo mayor appears re-elected

SAO PAULO — Brazil's ruling party lost its chance to retake the mayorship of South America's biggest city on Sunday, while an ex-guerrilla who once kidnapped a U.S. ambassador failed in his bid to become mayor of Rio de Janeiro.

Incumbent Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab, of the conservative Democrat Party, was 21 points ahead of Workers Party's Marta Suplicy with nearly 99 percent of the votes counted.

Suplicy, a former Sao Paulo mayor and a former tourism minister, lost the key race despite the outspoken support of popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Suplicy's defeat gives Silva's party an added challenge to get his successor elected in the 2010 presidential race, as mayors are seen as powerful vote gatherers.

With almost 100 percent of the votes counted in Rio de Janeiro, former guerrilla Fernando Gabeira trailed Eduardo Paes by 1 percentage point in the runoff for the mayorship of Brazil's second-largest city. In 1969, Gabeira helped kidnap the U.S. ambassador in Rio.