至少23人在墨西哥新拉雷多市在与美国接壤的可怕地区被杀。在一座桥下发现了九具吊着的尸体，身上有拷打的痕迹。数小时后，在一辆汽车里发现了14具被斩头的尸体，其头颅被装在冰盒里扔到市长办公室外。墨西哥两大贩毒团伙在新拉雷多宿怨已深，他们一直在争夺控制通往美国的走私路线。

The United States says it expects China to move quickly to allow the legal activist Chen Guangcheng to travel abroad. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who's in Beijing, welcomed China's offer to let Mr Chen apply to study overseas. American diplomats have been allowed to talk to the activist at a Beijing hospital where he's been held since leaving sanctuary in the US embassy.

美国表示，希望中国尽快允许法律活动人士陈光诚赴国外旅行。国务卿希拉里目前在北京，她对中国同意陈申请海外学习表示欢迎。美国外交官已被允许到北京一家医院与这位活动人士谈话，陈离开美国大使馆后就一直在这家医院。

The United Nations refugee agency says thousands of people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced by fighting between government troops and forces loyal to the renegade General Bosco Ntaganda. The UN said that since Sunday nearly 20,000 people have fled towards the regional capital Goma, and that about 1,000 people a day are crossing the border into Rwanda.