In Mexico, bodies of 3 missing foreigners discovered in less than a week

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The mother of Victoria Lizabeth Posada Silva has been looking for her daughter in prostitution houses across the country because, she says, many women and girls who go missing in Mexico end up as victims of sexual trafficking.

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In Mexico, Mother’s Day was a sad reminder for the mothers of more 116,000 people reported missing there. But, in a rare exception, officials managed to find the bodies of three missing foreigners from Australia and the US in less than a week. Plus, athletes have been announced for the refugee team slated to compete in the Summer Olympics in Paris. And you probably saw pictures of the Northern Lights online this past weekend. In fact, the photographs might have surpassed what you saw with the naked eye. We’ll find out why.

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