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A visitor touches the monument to the Kosovo Albanian guerrillas killed during the 1998-99 war in Serbia's southern province, in the village of Morina, 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of the capital Pristina, June 20, 2006. The U.N. Security Council is due to hear the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, on Tuesday, REUTERS/Hazir Reka

MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. treasurer said Friday that Mexican and U.S. officials want businesses and individuals on both sides of the border to invest in poor central and southern Mexico, where a lack of economic opportunity forces many people to head north for work. "Our goal as governments is to give (private businesses) incentives for investing in those areas," Rosario Marin told the Associated Press. Marin was in Mexico to drum up support for a Partnership for Prosperity program meant to tear down logistical and financial barriers that make it hard for Mexicans in the United States to send...