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A tourist from India falls eight-meters deep into a sinkhole after a section of a sidewalk along Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur caved in, prompting search and rescue operations.
2024-08-23

Dozens of road blockades are reported throughout the country, mainly in Guatemala City, organized by community organizations demanding the resignation of Attorney General María Consuelo Porras.
2023-10-9

Police raid the headquarters of the opposition party Movimiento Semilla and presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2023-07-21

The Guatemalan Public Ministry seizes information related to the Movimiento Semilla party at the offices of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Guatemala City. The tribunal announces that it will legally appeal the resolution that ordered the suspension of the party's registration, claiming that the resolution is unconstitutional.
2023-07-13

A sinkhole swallows a bus and several pedestrians on a busy street in Xining, China, killing six people and leaving 16 others injured. According to state media, the sinkhole stretches nearly 10m (32 feet) in diameter.
2020-01-13

At least seven people are killed and another 20 injured in a shooting at Pavón Prison near Guatemala City. The injured have been taken to hospital. Security forces have regained control of the facility.
2019-05-7

Police in Chimaltenango, Guatemala capture Ángel Gabriel Reyes Marroquin, a leader of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, street gang. Prosecutors say he is connected to the deaths of at least 287 people. In 2014 Reyes escaped while facing charges including murder from a maximum security prison. Currently, he was also wanted for an August 17 armed attack on Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala City in which seven people were shot dead.
2017-10-13

A sinkhole opens underneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, swallowing eight vintage Corvettes including the millionth Corvette built.
2014-02-12

Argentine singer-songwriter Facundo Cabral is assassinated in an apparent ambush in Guatemala City.
2011-07-9

132 people are killed across Central America in the aftermath of the first named storm of the 2010 Pacific hurricane season.
2010-06-1