Nearly 400 missing as search for victims enters 2nd week Relatives participate in the burial of Santos Etelvina Sontay, a victim of a mudslide in Santa Catarina Pinula, on the outskirts of Guatemala City. (Jose Cabezas/Reuters) The death toll from the mammoth landslide that buried a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital has risen to 253 as the search ...

The U.S. Treasury is seeking information from Toyota about how ISIS has gotten hold of the automaker’s trucks, which have been shown in the terror group’s propaganda videos. In a statement, Toyota said it is part of a broader U.S. Treasury inquiry looking more closely at how international supply chains and capital flow into the Middle East. The request of ...

10 ISIS targets were crashed by Russian jets in Syria on Monday, according to the Defense Ministry. Moscow expands its aerial campaign that targeted the Damascus area. The ministry said in a statement that 10 facilities had been crashed on the sixth day of military intervention of Moscow in Syria. They have destroyed an ISIS command center and communications hub of Damascus province also in ...

Islamic State (IS) militants executed 70 members of a Sunni tribe in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, the leader of the tribe said on Monday. The leader of the al-Bu Nimr tribe, Sheikh Naeem al-Gaoud said that members were shot dead in the village of Khanizir on Sunday night. The tribesmen were killed because they had relatives serving in the Iraqi security forces, according to the leader. ...

At least 63 people have been killed and many have been wounded in series of car bombings over across Iraq, according to medical sources. One of the most significant bomb attacks occurred near crowded market in town of Khalis killing at least 40 people. “The driver begged police to be allowed to park his vehicle in order to buy medication from a ...

The Nauruan government has promised that it will process 600 asylum seeker applications “within the next week”, which means those refugees will be free to move around the island. All refugees who have tried to get to Australia by boat are detained in offshore centres in Nauru because of the Australian government policy. Justice minister of Naruru, David Adeang said Australia will be providing assistance with security and ...

Sydney police have arrested a student on the way to Arthur Phillip High School this morning. The student is in the same school with the 15-year-old student, Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, who shot a NSW police employee dead at Parramatta’s police headquarters on Friday. Farhad Jabar was killed by police after he shot Mr Cheng dead. The student claimed that he was using his mobile phone to film officers who ...

For the last three decades, this small, politically conservative Western city has mostly welcomed refugees from around the world displaced by war, oppression and terror. A nonprofit refugee center, operated by the College of Southern Idaho with federal funds and charitable donations, brought in waves of often desperate and grateful families as trouble spots around the world flared and ebbed. ...

After two days of attacks directed exclusively against insurgents opposed to the Syrian government, there is little question that Russia is determined to re-establish President Bashar al-Assad as Syria’s leader. “Russia’s goal is to defend Assad; whoever is against him is a destabilizing factor,” said Aleksei Makarkin, the deputy head of the Center for Political Technologies, in Moscow. “Russia wants ...

The number of Iranian pilgrims who died last week in a human crush near Mecca in Saudi Arabia has nearly doubled to 464, Iran reported on Thursday, increasing tensions between the two countries and adding to doubts that the Saudi government had provided a full accounting of the disaster. The deaths occurred on Sept. 24, when large crowds of pilgrims ...