A mass grave was discovered in a residential area under construction in the municipality of Zapopan, part of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco.

“After analyzing the recovered remains, they correspond to 34 individuals,” said a state official during a press conference. Jalisco has one of the highest numbers of missing persons in Mexico, largely due to the activity of drug cartels.

As of May 31, official data shows that Jalisco has recorded 15,683 missing persons, according to the state prosecutor’s office. Authorities attribute most of these cases to criminal organizations, which often bury or cremate their victims clandestinely.

“The construction company notified us at the end of February after discovering some remains,” explained the official, González, adding that excavation efforts have been ongoing since then.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) operates in the region and was designated as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Washington has accused CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel of being the main sources of fentanyl trafficking, a synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S.

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Mexico has accumulated more than 127,000 missing persons, most of them since 2006, when the federal government launched a heavily criticized military-led anti-drug offensive.

Nearly seven out of ten people arrested during immigration raids in Los Angeles from June 1 to June 10 had no criminal record, contradicting White House claims that the raids targeted “criminals,” according to an analysis published Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times.

Around 722 individuals were detained in the Los Angeles metropolitan area during the first ten days of June, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initiated the raids, according to data obtained by the Deportation Data Project of the University of California Berkeley School of Law.

The Los Angeles Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during this period had no criminal record, and 58% had never been charged with any crime.

These figures contradict the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which said in a statement Tuesday that since June 6, ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched an operation “to remove the worst criminal illegal aliens.”

DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin warned that the arrests are part of President Donald Trump’s promise to secure the border by deporting criminals, including drug traffickers in Los Angeles, without providing further details.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass criticized last week in a CNN interview that although the White House said it would target violent criminals, the raids had focused on workers.

“This wasn’t a drug den, it was a Home Depot,” Bass said, questioning the locations where raids were conducted.

Activists have also denounced the raids for targeting vulnerable workers who are easy to detain.

The Los Angeles Times analysis found that the average age of those arrested was 38, mostly men. Nearly 48% were Mexican, 16% Guatemalan, and 8% Salvadoran.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he will continue fighting alongside U.S. President Donald Trump against their “common enemies,” and that both leaders will swiftly expand the “circle of peace” in the Middle East following their collaboration in the recent war against Iran.

“Thank you, President Trump, for your moving support for me and your tremendous support for Israel and the Jewish people. We will continue working together to defeat our common enemies, free our hostages, and rapidly expand the circle of peace,” Netanyahu wrote on the social media platform X.

Netanyahu’s remarks came in response to a message from the former U.S. president on his social network, Truth Social, in which Trump called Netanyahu “perhaps the greatest warrior in Israel’s history,” praising his role in the war against Iran.

In that message, Trump also called for an end to the “witch hunt” against Netanyahu, referring to the ongoing corruption trials he has faced for months, and asked for their dismissal.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu himself requested a two-week postponement of his court testimonies due to national security concerns.

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The statements about expanding the “circle of peace” come amid regional uncertainty following a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran (proposed by Trump and coordinated with Qatar), the terms of which remain unknown.

Since the truce, Trump has advocated for regional peace, posting on Truth Social: “CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!” Days earlier, the U.S. had joined the conflict by bombing Iran’s main nuclear facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and the heavily fortified Fordow site.

White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff told CNBC that “major announcements” regarding the Abraham Accords — initiated during Trump’s first administration to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab states (including the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco) — could be made soon.

Additionally, on June 24, Israel’s National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi said Israel was holding talks with Syria in an attempt to normalize relations with its neighbor.

Israel has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967 and, since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, has controlled the demilitarized zone between the two countries, which is Syrian territory.

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