At least 20 people have been killed in a night shootout in Michoacan, a western Mexican state plunged into violence by clashes between rival drug gangs.

The mysterious killing of 17 people in Mexico’s Michoacán state has shocked people in the North American country, prompting local authorities to order an investigation into the gruesome incident.

A journalist has been found dead near Mexico's capital, adding to the record number of media workers killed in the Latin American country.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calls on Washington to stop the “shameful” bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups, and refrain from intervening in the country’s internal affairs.

Migrants protested outside Mexico's Migration Institute offices.

Hundreds of migrants heading towards the US border had been holding out at the camp for more than a year in what rights organizations criticized as deplorable conditions.

Roberto Toledo was shot dead by three gunmen on Monday afternoon in a carpark in the city of Zitácuaro.

Mexican protesters have taken to the streets in more than a dozen cities across the country to protest the recent killings of three journalists.

A Mexican journalist is shot dead in the border city of Tijuana on Sunday, becoming the second journalist to be killed with US-manufactured firearms in the region in less than a week.

The US returns the first migrants to Mexico under a reinstated policy that allows officials to send non-Mexican migrants to that country to await their US immigration court hearings.