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CNN —Mexicans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in a historic election expected to return the country’s first woman president. More than 98 million voters are registered to cast a ballot in Mexico, and 1.4 million Mexicans are eligible to vote abroad. Mexico's opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Gálvez outside a polling station in Mexico City on June 2, 2024. Outside polling stations, voters told CNN that public security was one of their main concerns. Jorge Luis Plata/ReutersUS officials are closely monitoring the presidential election as it comes at a critical time for the Biden administration.

Persons: Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum, ” Gálvez, Luis Cortes, ”, Jorge Luis Plata, Biden, CNN’s Michelle Velez, Priscilla Alvarez Organizations: CNN, Morena, PAN, ’ Movement, Reuters, Electoral Institute, coy, Republicans, Biden, Homeland Security Locations: Mexico, Mexico City, Yucatán, San Bartolome Quialana

CNN —Seven men are now in custody in India for the alleged gang-rape of a tourist and assault on her husband, authorities said, in a case that has shone a new spotlight on the endemic problem of sexual violence against women in the country. On Saturday, police announced that three men had been arrested in connection with the incident and that they were seeking four more. India has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases involving foreign visitors drawing international attention to the issue. And in 2013, six men were sentenced to life in prison for the gang rape of a Swiss tourist. According to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, a total of 31,516 rape cases were recorded in 2022, an average of 86 cases per day.

Persons: Anjaneyulu Dodde, Pitambar Singh Kherwar, Kherwar, Rekha Sharma, Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, ” Organizations: CNN, Police, India’s, Commission for Women, Crime Records Locations: India, West Bengal, Nepal, Dumka, Jharkhand, British, Goa, American, New Delhi, Swiss

☆ Gang in Haiti opened fire on church-led protest, killing at least 7 people, human rights groups say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Michelle Velez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least seven people are dead after a gang opened fire on a church-led protest in a suburb of Haiti’s capital on Saturday, according to local human rights groups. Hundreds of people gathered by a Christian church leader, marched in Canaan, a northern suburb of capital Port-au-Prince, and rallied against gang violence when a local gang opened fire with machine guns, Marie Yolène Gilles, director of human rights group Fondasyon Je Klere, told CNN. The number of people killed is likely higher, given the number of parishioners at the march, said Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights director Gédéon Jean. A video shared with CNN by a local human rights group shows bloody bodies on the ground, wearing shirts with the religious group’s logo. Gang violence in HaitiWaves of crime and unrest have hit Haiti since the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

Persons: Marie Yolène Gilles, Gédéon Jean, ” Jean, Jean, Jovenel Moïse, Ariel Henry, Prince, Kale ”, María Isabel Salvador Organizations: CNN, Analysis, Human, Haitian National Police, United Nations Locations: Haiti’s, Canaan, Port, Haiti

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