Guatemala’s emergency response agency, Conred, has been accused of criminal negligence as it "failed to heed warnings" by the national institute for seismology and volcanology before the Fuego volcano eruption.
A fresh eruption in Guatemala’s Fuego volcano on Tuesday disrupted rescue efforts as the death toll from the catastrophic explosion on Sunday crossed 75 while 192 people remain missing.
At least 25 people were killed and 300 others injured on Sunday after Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted and engulfed the village of El Rodeo in a five-mile stream of lava and billowing clouds of black smoke and ash.
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected for another term on Sunday even as opposition leaders boycotted the polls and dismissed the results claiming widespread irregularities in the electoral process.
In an apparently “deliberate” act bringing back the haunting memories of recent vehicle assaults by Islamic State supporters, a van plowed into the crowd across a sidewalk in northern Toronto, killing 10 people on Monday.
In a verdict that dashes hopes of political survival for Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country’s Supreme Court ruled that the disgraced leader must begin his jail term while he appeals a conviction.
Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who triggered a political firestorm by pardoning former leader Alberto Fujimori, urged people to accept the decision as protests in the capital Lima entered the second day.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico on Tuesday, knocking down dozens of buildings in the capital and leaving 248 people dead on a day that coincided with the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 quake.
An 8.1 magnitude earthquake with epicenter located in the Pacific, 54 miles southwest of the town of Pijijiapan in Chiapas state ripped off Mexico’s southern coast on Thursday, leaving at least 60 people dead.
A deadly shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada comes just hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would welcome refugees and migrants following America’s decision to suspend its refugee program.
