In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the US, authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates a young cartel’s vast reach north of the border.

A fight among inmates at a prison in northern Mexico killed 19 inmates and left more than 20 injured, Durango state officials said.

SOLDIERS and federal police have regained control of Tijuana’s infamous La Mesa State Penitentiary after a second riot in three days left 19 people dead and 12 injured, officials said yesterday.

A wave of attacks on police by a notorious gang has killed at least 30 people - including 23 officers – in the bloodiest assault of its kind in the history of Brazil’s largest state, authorities said.

US PROSECUTORS investigating the prison death of defrocked priest John Geoghan want to know if security procedures broke down at the facility, allowing a neo-Nazi who hated homosexuals the opportunity to confront a convicted paedophile.