MEXICO
Cop and family slain after he targeted gang
TABASCO — Gunmen have killed a state police officer and 10 members of his family, including five children, authorities said Sunday.
The shooting late Saturday also killed a street vendor in front of the house of state police officer Carlos Reyes, said Tabasco deputy prosecutor Alex Alvarez. Among the five children killed was a 2-year-old boy.
"It is confirmed that (the assailants) wanted to kill the state police officer, but they killed his whole family," Alvarez said.
Alvarez said Reyes directed a car chase and raids on two homes on Wednesday that led to the death of three suspected gang members and the arrest of seven others.
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Spanish priest's body found outside Havana
HAVANA — A Roman Catholic priest from Spain who lived for many years in Cuba has been found dead outside Havana, church officials said Sunday.
Authorities recovered the body of Eduardo de la Fuente Serrano, a 59-year-old Madrid native, about 12 miles from Cuba's capital, said Orlando Marquez, spokesman for Havana's Conference of Bishops.
Neither Marquez nor Spanish Embassy officials gave details about the death.
RUSSIA
Hundreds join protest of political killings
MOSCOW — Several hundred people have marched through central Moscow calling for an end to political killings in Russia.
The march was in memory of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasiya Baburova, who were gunned down on a Moscow street in January.
The demonstrators held a banner saying: "A government that is not eager to solve political killings becomes a participant (in the killings)."
The city government sanctioned the march, and police did not intervene.
ZIMBABWE
Nominee won't be charged with treason
HARARE — Zimbabwean police no longer plan treason charges against a longtime opposition politician appointed to the unity government, the lawmaker's party said Sunday.
The Movement for Democratic Change party reported earlier that police said Roy Bennett, the party's nominee to be deputy agriculture minister, would be accused of treason, which carries the death penalty. The party said police revised that Sunday, saying Bennett faces a weapons charge instead.
SOUTH AFRICA
Mandela makes rare appeal for candidate
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela emerged from retirement Sunday to make a rare, surprise campaign appearance at an African National Congress rally for presidential candidate Jacob Zuma.
Mandela, the 90-year-old former South African president and anti-apartheid icon, has repeatedly insisted he is no longer actively involved in politics. But he campaigned in the rain alongside Zuma, the ANC leader, in rural southeastern South Africa where Mandela grew up.
Mandela, according to an ANC statement, waved to the crowd and spoke briefly.
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