Ever since the Winter Olympics were awarded to Russia, fears were raised about potential terrorist attacks, which have plagued the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Dmitri Trenin.

Lava flowing from the Pacaya volcano near Guatemala City has prompted the evacuation of people living nearest the crater, Guatemala authorities said today.

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook Guatemala’s Pacific coastline, causing some homes to collapse in a town near the epicentre. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

WHEN you think of earthquakes and all things seismological, Ireland is probably not the first place that comes up on your Richter Scale.

Anti-virus software founder John McAfee has arrived in the US after his deportation from Guatemala.

Software company founder John McAfee was yesterday hospitalised after being denied political asylum in Guatemala.

Software company founder John McAfee has been arrested in Guatemala City for entering the country illegally.

Fugitive software company founder John McAfee surfaced in public for the first time in weeks, saying he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala because he fears persecution in Belize.

Fugitive software company founder John McAfee has surfaced in public for the first time in weeks, saying he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala because he fears persecution in Belize.

Surfacing in public for the first time in weeks, software company founder John McAfee says he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala, saying he fears persecution in Belize.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Guatemala, killing at least 48 people in two states.

The US Geological Survey says a strong earthquake has hit off the Pacific coast of Guatemala.

A long-simmering volcano exploded with a series of powerful eruptions outside one of Guatemala’s most famous tourist attractions, hurling thick clouds of ash nearly two miles high, spewing rivers of lava and sparking evacuation orders for more than 33,000 people.

Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a minister called the biggest disaster in the nation’s soccer history.

At least 73 people have died in clashes after a football match in Egypt, state TV says.

Former Guatemalan leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared in court but is refusing to testify in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous communities during his dictatorship in the 1980s.

Retired General Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as president of Guatemala, calling on the United States and Mexico to help him fight a wave of drug trafficking and violence that has overwhelmed the Central American country.

INOCENTA HERNANDEZ from Guatemala City heard a sudden loud booming sound and quickly ran outside thinking there had been an explosion nearby.

Four decapitated heads were found in prominent areas of Guatemala’s capital today in what police said were probably revenge killings in response to a crackdown on organised crime.

Flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 150 people and left thousands homeless in Central America, officials said today.

The death toll in Central America from landslides and flooding triggered by the year's first tropical storm surged to 99 as authorities struggled to clear roads of debris and reach cut-off communities.

Torrential rains brought by the first tropical storm of the 2010 season pounded Guatemala and southern Mexico, triggering deadly landslides and killing at least 12.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America, forcing thousands to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over major cities.

Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanos in Central and South America today, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions.

A STRONG earthquake has rocked Guatemala and parts of El Salvador, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.

Authorities said a mob beat a suspected criminal to death and threatened to burn three women who were with the victim. It was Guatemala’s fifth vigilante killing in three days.

Panama’s foreign minister says his country will quit the Central American Parliament.

Ousted president Manuel Zelaya said the Honduran people “have the right to insurrection” against the interim government that forced him out of the country.

A COMPUTER user in Guatemala has become one of the first in the world to be arrested for twittering.

A murder hunt was underway today after the bodies of three sisters with their throats cut were found in a village near Guatemala City.

Five anti-drug agents were killed in a shootout with alleged drug traffickers armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers in Guatemala.

Sunderland boss Roy Keane could be heading for another row with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) over midfielder Dwight Yorke.

A light aircraft carrying American humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala, killing 10 people.

At least 40 people were killed and 15 injured when a passenger bus plunged off a motorway and rolled into a gully in Guatemala.

Felix slammed into Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.

Twelve people including five children were killed in Guatemala when a pick-up truck was washed away in a river swollen by heavy rains.

Mel Gibson has met Guatemala's President in the hope of filming a Mayan archaeological site in the country.

Forty-six children believed abducted or coerced from their parents were rescued from an adoption home run by an American man and his Guatemalan wife, police said.

The Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi has won the contest to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Former President George Bush Snr was in good spirits as he gave a speech last night, a day after being overcome by the sweltering desert heat and staying overnight at a Southern California hospital.

Former US President George Bush Snr was treated at a California hospital for dehydration and released today after collapsing during a golf game in Palm Springs.

About 150 protesters attacked riot police with rocks and metal barriers and ripped down lampposts in Colombia’s capital Bogota as US President George Bush paid a six-hour visit to the close US ally.

Gunmen stormed a Guatemalan prison and gunned down four jailed police officers in a mafia hit, the country’s leader said.

A giant sinkhole swallowed several homes and at least one truck early today in Guatemala City.