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While the main problems in Mexico seem to be getting bigger, about 89 million eligible voters can elect the president, parliament and thousands of other executives on Sunday.

Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.

A majority in the US House of Representatives voted against a Republican bill on Wednesday as expected to protect, among others, illegals who entered the US years ago with their parents, the so-called dreamers. Part of the law, which was seen as a compromise, was also the release of 15 billion dollars for the construction of the wall along the border with Mexico.

In the Mexican village of Ocampo in the western state of Michoacan, 27 police officers and a local civil servant have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a mayor candidate. It is the third politician who was murdered in Michoacan last week, reports the BBC.

While First Lady surprised Melania with an unexpected visit to a rescue center for children crossing Mexico's border from Mexico, her husband Donald Trump in Washington saw that a bill for financing the wall he wanted was once again killed.

It does not look like there will be a new immigration law that President Donald Trump wants in the short term. The House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a pronounced conservative bill from the Republican chairman of the legal committee Bob Goodlatte with 231 votes against and 193 for.

First lady Melania Trump went to Texas unannounced and went to see a detention center for children of illegal immigrants separated from their parents. According to US media, it is a detention center of the border guard in McAllen on the border with Mexico.

US President Donald Trump will sign a decree on Wednesday to solve the problems surrounding the separation of children from parents who have illegally entered the US. What the decree exactly means is not known.

Presidents also need love in their lives. Even if this president, Donald Trump, is called. After his speech at the National Federation of Independent Business event, Trump decided to cuddle an inanimate object; the American flag.

All Republicans in the US Senate want to keep migrant families together while their status is being determined. The leader of the Republicans in the Senate Mitch McConnell announced on Tuesday that they are working on a solution for separating children from their parents. That should then be laid down in new legislation.

The Mexican football supporter Javier, who was not allowed to join his wife with his friends to the World Cup in Russia, is- thanks to a creative and hilarious solution of his buddies- a little bit more. His friends made a cardboard sign with his photo in lifelike format and now drag them everywhere. The images they share on social media work well on the laughter muscles.

In southern Mexico, three activists committed to the rights of gays and lesbians have been shot dead. Their bodies were found next to a road in Taxco in the state of Guerrero. According to the local media, the men were executed by a shot with a shot.

With fans of 'Die Mannschaft', big disappointment dominates Sunday after the 0-1-debacle against Mexico. The four-time world champion was defeated by the underdog. Everywhere in Berlin, in the well-stocked Biergärten and Eckkneipen, disillusioned Germans gave free rein to their frustration.

Since the introduction of a stricter policy in mid-April, nearly two thousand refugee children, who have entered the US illegally from Mexico, have been separated from their parents. US media reports this on the basis of figures from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

With two weeks to go to the elections, political violence in Mexico is on the rise. Armed men shot a mayor on Thursday who had applied for re-election. Another mayor candidate was kidnapped in broad daylight on Tuesday and has been without trace ever since. Last Friday, a politician was shot dead who took part in a provincial function.

Former PSV player Eric Gerets (64) has filed a complaint against his former teammate Gilbert Bodart (55). This because of repeated death threats to his address and that of his girlfriend Virginie, also the ex of Bodart. 'I am going to kill you, Bodart called several times. I have never known anyone so aggressively. '

The American-Mexican drug lord Édgar Valdez Villareal has been sentenced to 49 years and one month in prison in the US. The judge in Atlanta considered 'La Barbie', as the 44-year-old suspect is called because of his fair hair and blue eyes, guilty of large-scale cocaine trafficking and the laundering of enormous amounts.

The Volcán de Fuego, which erupted violently on Sunday and demanded dozens of lives, emitted more volcanic material and gas clouds after a new explosion. The emergency response service adjusted the death toll on Monday from 38 to at least 62. There are also about 300 wounded, several of them with fire injuries.

In Guatemala, at least twenty-five people have died or been killed by a volcanic eruption. Another hundred people were injured, the authorities report. It is the second time this year that the Volcán de Fuego erupted.

Gunmen have certainly killed six traffic cops in Mexico. The six were under fire during a routine check in the city of Salamanca in the middle of the country. The authorities report that.

The import duties on steel and aluminum that US President Donald Trump now also imposes on the European Union, Canada and Mexico, has fallen badly within his own party.

The United States is going to announce import duties on steel and aluminum for the European Union, reports The Wall Street Journal on the basis of imported sources. The plans might be announced on Thursday.

The tropical storm Alberto landed in the American state of Florida. That happened near Panama City in the northwest of the Sunshine State. It is expected that Alberto will take care of a lot of rain.

In North America, the hurricane season was officially opened on Friday with the warning for Alberto. That is still a tropical storm that has developed a little 100 kilometers south of the Mexican tourist island of Cozumel.

The Mexican aviation authority withdrew the license on Monday from Aerolineas Damojh, the owner of the aircraft that crashed on Cuba on Friday. The measure applies for the duration of the investigation that the aviation authority has instituted to Mexican society.

A former pilot has seriously blamed the owner of the aircraft crashed on Cuba for poor maintenance. The Boeing 737-200 was leased by the Mexican airline Damojh. Due to the crash, shortly after departure from Havana airport, 110 passengers and crew members were killed.

There were five foreign passengers on board the crashed plane in Cuba. The cabin crew also came from abroad. This was announced by the state website Cubadebate, without mentioning the nationality of the victims.

The Mexican police have arrested the leader of the violent criminal gang La Línea. Carlos Arturo Quintana, better known under the alias El 80, is responsible for, among other things, violent incidents in the northern province of Chihuahua, according to the Minister of the Interior Alfonso Navarrete through Twitter.

An American doctor has been charged with treating patients for 18 years with diseases they did not have at all. With the money he earned with it, he led a luxury life. Even children received unnecessary treatments from the horror doctor.

A Polish and a German bicycle tourist were killed when they were on their way to the popular Mayan city Palenque in Mexico. The German had a bullet wound in his skull. His Polish companion was beheaded.