Gulf

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - It's practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war.

TAMPA, Fla. - The dirt - specifically dirty diapers - is flying in Florida's race for governor.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Members of a northern Mexico drug gang rammed a car that may have been packed with explosives or inflammable material into two police patrol trucks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing two officers and a medical technician and wounding nine people.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch court is to issue its verdict in the piracy case of five Somalis accused of attacking a freight ship in the Gulf of Aden, the first such case in a European court.