BP hikes asset sale target after oil spill: report (AFP)

Oil is seen in the water off a beach on Grand Isle, Louisiana in June. Oil giant BP has increased to $40 bln the amount it wants to raise from an asset sale programme in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a news report said.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - Oil giant BP has increased to nearly 25 billion pounds the amount it wants to raise from an asset sale programme in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.
BP Gulf well "secured," awaiting final kill: U.S. (Reuters)
Reuters - BP Plc's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is secure with no threat of spewing crude again, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said
Busted BP well no longer 'threat' to Gulf (AFP)

BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill National Incident Commander Thad Allen briefs reporters about the latest progress in capping the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico on August 20 in Washington, DC. Allen announced Saturday that the blowout prevent, known as the BOP, was safely in the hands of federal investigators on a surface vessel after being removed from the wellhead and hoisted up.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AFP - The Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been secured and no longer constitutes "a threat," a senior US official said.
Torrential rains kill 18 in Guatemala (Reuters)

People cross a flooded street on a makeshift balsa in Villahermosa, Tabasco state, Mexico, September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Luis LopezReuters - At least 18 people were killed in Guatemala on Saturday, including a dozen on a bus that was buried in a landslide, as heavy rains lashed the Central American nation and southern Mexico.
Mexican suspect in US consulate killings in Texas court (AFP)

Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo, aka AFP - A Mexican suspect in the March drive-by shooting of a US consulate worker in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez appeared at a closed-door hearing in a Texas court, the San Antonio News said Saturday.
Ariz. governor says she was wrong about beheadings (AP)
AP - A claim by Arizona's governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a stammering debate performance in which she failed to back it up.
Judge orders Mexico drug lord 'La Barbie' held for 40 days (AFP)

Edgar Valdez aka 'La Barbie' of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, is presented to the press at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City, on August 2010. A Mexican federal judge has ordered 40 days of initial detention for Valdez, a notorious accused drug lord who police arrested this week, the attorney general said Saturday.(AFP/File/Alfredo Estrella)AFP - A Mexican federal judge has ordered 40 days of initial detention for Edgar Valdez, a notorious accused drug lord who police arrested this week, the attorney general said Saturday.
Mexican judge orders drug lord held 40 more days (Reuters)

A soldier stands guard on a military vehicle after a gunfight with gang members at a ranch approximately 90 mi (140 km) from Monterrey September 2, 2010. REUTERS/Tomas BravoReuters - A Mexican judge ordered Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, believed to be one of the country's top drug bosses, held for 40 more days of investigation, the federal prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
Judge orders alleged kingpin 'La Barbie' held (AP)

Texas-born fugitive Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias 'the Barbie,' center, is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Valdez, who was captured on Monday by federal police, faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S. and is blamed in Mexico for a brutal turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges, decapitations and shootouts as he and a rival fought for control of the divided Beltran Leyva cartel. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - A judge has ordered a U.S.-born suspected drug lord known as "La Barbie" held for 40 days pending an investigation into organized-crime and other possible charges, authorities announced Saturday.
Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court (AP)
AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
BP spill costs hit 8 bln dlrs as crews unearth clues (AFP)

A scientist documents recently washed ashore oil on a beach near Venice, Louisiana. British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - British oil giant BP has spent eight billion dollars to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed.
BP replaces failed blowout preventer on Gulf well (Reuters)
Reuters - BP Plc successfully replaced a failed blowout preventer from atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late on Friday, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said.
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