Ciudad Victoria / AFP Police killed eight gunmen who attacked them on a road in northern Mexico and they seized six high-caliber rifles and a grenade launcher after the shootout, authorities said. The federal officers were on patrol on a road in the town of San Fernando, in the violence-plagued state of Tamaulipas, when armed civilians arrived in two …

  TIRANA/ AP German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on the Albanian political forces to pass a judicial reform package, considered fundamental to convince the European Union launch membership negotiations. Steinmeier, who is to visit Tirana on Tuesday, was quoted by the Albanian Mapo daily newspaper as calling on all political forces “to take over overall state responsibility and …

  PRISTINA / AP The Kosovo government has amended a draft law to prolong the European Union rule of law mission, known as EULEX, for two years. A statement received on Tuesday said the previous evening the Cabinet met to amend a draft law on prolonging of the EULEX mandate after a letter. The Cabinet acted after President Hashim Thaci …