Reuters - The murders of 25 people by suspected drug hitmen on the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday was the bloodiest day in almost three years in an area gripped by an escalating drug war, officials said on Friday.

AFP - Onlookers cheered as trucks carrying equipment to drill a third tunnel to rescue 33 men trapped deep inside a Chilean mine trickled in Friday, some arriving with blown tires after the rough trip.

Canada's largest communications company Bell announced on Friday it will acquire the remaining 85 percent of CTV to complete its hold over the country's largest television broadcaster.

Canada's Carney warns global recovery at risk

Canada's unemployment rate nudges up 8.1% in August

Canada adds more jobs in August, but details soft

Canada's economy created 35,800 new jobs in August, yet the unemployment rate remains over eight per cent, Statistics Canada announced Friday morning.

Canada's economy added more jobs than expected in August, but the pace of employment creation slowed from the first half of the year, suggesting the recovery was losing momentum, and market reaction to the numbers was unenthusiastic.

Canada's economy added 35,800 jobs in August, slightly more than expected, although the pace of employment creation was slower than in the first half of the year, Statistics Canada data showed Friday.

Canada recorded a bigger-than- expected gain in employment in August as a jump in educational jobs retraced the previous month’s losses, while the country’s jobless rate increased as more people entered the work force.

AP - The Mexican police officers who arrested infamous drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," did not initially know who they had caught, according to a booking report obtained Thursday.

AFP - One of the drilling machines being used in the effort to free 33 trapped Chilean miners halted for two days of repairs as a third machine arrived at the site, rescue officials said Thursday.

AP - The Honduran government has deployed soldiers to perform anti-crime patrols in some of the Central American country's most violent cities, following the massacre of 18 people in a shoe factory this week.

AP - Mexico's Senate passed a bill Thursday that would allow undocumented migrants to file complaints about abuses and receive medical treatment without being questioned about their immigration status.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Thursday denied that rising drug violence made Mexico look increasingly like Colombia at the height of its drugs war, rebuffing comments made by his Secretary of State.

AP - With a blunt remark that grated on Mexicans, Washington's top diplomat was merely echoing a growing concern about the alarming violence and instability being caused by Mexico's war on drug cartels.

Reuters - The World Bank, which has lent millions of dollars to turn Peru's fragile desert coast into verdant farmland, has stumbled into a film noir scene straight out of Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' about the violent water wars of 1930s Los Angeles.

AP - The United Nations mission in Haiti says one of its peacekeepers and a civilian woman have been shot by robbers outside a bank in the capital.

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Canada had a record high monthly trade deficit in July and the housing market stalled, data released on Thursday showed, signaling sputtering economic growth as the third quarter got under way.