MEXICO
Mom is suspected of selling her baby
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have detained a young mother on suspicion of selling her 8-month-old daughter in exchange for a house and undisclosed payments.
Prosecutors in western Michoacan state say the baby's maternal grandmother told authorities her daughter gave the girl to a local couple and talked of getting a house in return.
The couple were also detained.
Prosecutors identified the mother as 19-year-old Maria del Rosario Santos Martinez. The office said in a statement Sunday that Santos Martinez is a single parent who already had one child and apparently couldn't support another.
No formal charges were immediately filed.
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GERMANY
Merkel launches re-election campaign
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off her conservative party's campaign for the Sept. 27 election by calling for a center-right coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats.
Merkel called at a rally of her Christian Democrats on Sunday in Düsseldorf for a new partner in government after four years of an uneasy coalition with her party's main rival, the Social Democrats.
She pledged to create jobs by stimulating economic growth. She further vowed that her party would increase public-funded child care and the number of electric-powered cars if returned to power.
EL SALVADOR
76 migrants are found aboard boat in Pacific
SAN SALVADOR — The Salvadoran navy says it has found 76 migrants from as far away as Bangladesh, Nepal and Eritrea aboard a boat in the Pacific.
Navy Capt. Maximiliano Corado says the boat was detected about 50 miles off the coast, and "without doubt the final destination was to arrive in the United States."
The migrants include 25 Bangladeshis, 25 Nepalese, 21 Eritreans and five Ecuadoreans.
Corado said Sunday that the boat set sail a week ago from the Ecuadorean port of Manta.
He said all the migrants appeared to be undocumented, and all except the Ecuadoreans are to be deported.
LIBERIA
Massacre remains from 1994 reburied
KPOLOKPAI — The remains of hundreds of people killed 15 years ago near a Liberian village were reburied Sunday in a mass grave with a ceremony marking the massacre.
A church service honoring the dead was intended to try to put to rest the 1994 Kpolokpai massacre, one of many chapters in Liberia's civil war that killed an estimated 250,000 people between 1989 and 2003. Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation commission determined that the Kpolokpai massacre was led by the Liberian Peace Council whose rebels were fighting the National Patriotic Front of Liberia.
CHINA
Attacker hurls acid, injures 11 pedestrians
HONG KONG — An attacker hurled acid at pedestrians in a Hong Kong shopping district Sunday, injuring 11 people.
Police spokesman Chau Yau-fai said the attacker — a 28-year-old man arrested nearby — targeted a couple strolling through the Mong Kok district but also hurt nine others. Assistant District Commander Angela Ng said the couple quarreled with the suspect before the attack.
Sunday's attack was unrelated to the area's three previous ones, which started last December and have injured some 100 people, Chau said. In those attacks, acid apparently was tossed from neighboring buildings. No one was arrested.
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