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Investigators have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in clandestine graves in a municipality in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles, authorities said Thursday.

Known for chaotic avenues filled with car-dodging pedestrians, balconies that discharge waterfalls onto sidewalks and reggaeton played at deafening volume, Havana wants to clean up its streets.

Tropical Storm Otto headed toward the Pacific Ocean early Friday after dumping rain on Costa Rica and Nicaragua, where it made landfall as the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America.

Investigators have found 32 bodies and nine human heads in clandestine graves in a municipality in southern Mexico where rival drug gangs have been engaged in a wave of extortion, kidnappings and turf battles, authorities said Thursday.

The Philippines' immigration chief says 1,240 Chinese nationals suspected of working illegally in the country for an online gambling operator have been arrested at a resort and casino complex north of Manila.

An announcement on a Chinese human rights monitoring website says the site's editor has been detained on suspicion of subverting state power.

Central America was struck on Thursday by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake with so far no report of deaths, injuries or material damage, triggering an initial tsunami alert in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which both are also on high alert due to the onslaught of Hurricane Otto.

North Korea said Friday that it had discussed the issue of American and Canadian detainees with the Swedish ambassador in the country.

A retired Colombian general has been found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the 1989 assassination of a top presidential contender.

China's central bank has set the value of the yuan at the currency's lowest level against the U.S. dollar in eight years.

The eye of Hurricane Otto passed over Costa Rica Thursday afternoon bringing winds of at least 150 kilometers (93 miles) per hour and dumping rain in the northern part of the country, the National Weather Institute, or IMN, announced.

Nicaraguan authorities on Thursday suspended the tsunami alert they had announced after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country's northern Pacific coastal region earlier in the day, although its epicenter was in El Salvador.

Guatemala's 15 consuls in the United States are meeting here Thursday with Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales with the aim of finalizing an immigration strategy after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to deport some three million undocumented foreigners.

French police searched Friday for a masked gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France, authorities said.

The French gendarmerie says a masked gunman has burst into a retirement home for monks in southern France and killed an elderly woman with a knife.

Uruguay's deputy tourism minister said that based on current trends the number of international tourist arrivals during the current Southern Hemisphere summer season, which peaks in December and January, should rise by more than 10 percent.

Police say two people have died on the Greek island of Lesbos and two others were seriously injured after a fire raged through a refugee camp used for migrants facing deportation back to Turkey.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Thursday inspected the construction of a potable water distribution system that he said would create equal opportunities for some 16,500 people who live in the northern province of Chaco, one of the nation's poorest.

A U.S. service member embedded with the Kurdish-leg Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Syria died Thursday from injuries from a blast by an improvised explosive device, military officials said.

A total of 12 bodies have been found in three clandestine graves in Zitlala, a municipality in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, officials said Thursday.