Mexico's Defense Department said in a statement on Wednesday that six migrants from Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru were killed, and 10 others wounded, when soldiers opened fire on a truck on Tuesday near the border with Guatemala.

Former Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison by a US federal court following his conviction in March of conspiring to bring cocaine into the US and possessing weapons such as machine guns.

Panama has announced a deal with Washington to send migrants illegally crossing the Darien Gap to reach the US back to their homelands, as a US delegation visited the country for the inauguration of Pres. José Raúl Mulino on Monday.

A crocodile has produced eggs despite the lack of a male mate in a very rare reproductive strategy known as facultative parthenogenesis (FP). The discovery by scientists was published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.