Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an accomplished climate scientist, could struggle to fulfill her environmental pledges after she sailed to victory, in part, on the popularity of a predecessor who doubled down on fossil fuels.

Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, a former climate scientist, inherits a country struggling to decarbonize.

These masks were being sold amidst anticipation for a forthcoming addresses by Sheinbaum and the former head of the capital's government, President Lopez Obrador.

The 59-year-old had no known exposure to poultry or other animals, the World Health Organization said. His symptoms included nausea, fever and shortness of breath.

A man in Mexico died after contracting a subtype of bird flu that has never been documented in a human before. The World Health Organization announced the death this week, saying that it considers the “current risk to the general population posed by this virus to be low.”

The announcement comes after US President Joe Biden unveiled executive action that would bar people who cross the US-Mexico border illegally from requesting asylum, during periods when there is a high volume of illegal crossings.

Mexico and the United States are nearing an agreement for non-Mexican migrants to be deported directly to their home countries rather than Mexico, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order that will allow him to partially suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants.