Mexico’s top diplomat is demanding an urgent investigation into how military-grade weapons such as belt-fed machine guns, rocket launchers and grenades are being found in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Said weapons are not sold for civilian use in the United States. “The [Mexican] Defense Department has warned the United States about weapons entering Mexico that are for the exclusive... 

Environmental groups had called on the Obama administration to restore wilderness protections. The US is to make millions of acres of public land eligible for wilderness protection, officials have said. The order reverses former President George W Bush’s policy forbidding the government from doing so. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Thursday said the new policy would help to protect public...