Opposition politicians in Guatemala want the head of the emergency response agency (Conred) to be dismissed.
According to them, Conred failed to heed advance warnings about the deadly eruption of the Fuego volcano.
A senior opposition figure, Mario Taracena, was quoted to have said the government should investigate whether there was criminal negligence.
Ninety-nine people are now known to have died since Sunday, and many others remain unaccounted for.
Villages on the slopes were buried in volcanic ash and mud after Fuego erupted.
Subsequent smaller eruptions and the high temperatures of the rock and mud debris have made search teams’ work extremely difficult.
More than 1.7 million people have been affected by Sunday’s eruption, with more than 3,000 evacuated.
Scores of Ethiopians drown en route Yemen
Forty-six Ethiopians have drowned and 16 others are missing after a human smuggler’s boat carrying at least 100 refugees capsized as it approached Yemen.
The vessel left the port of Bossasso in Somalia on Tuesday with 83 men and 17 women on board.
They were hoping to find work in Yemen and the Gulf, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Wednesday, citing information from survivors.
IOM’s director of operations and emergencies, Mohammad Abdiker, said the Gulf of Aden’s migration tragedy was shameful.
“Over 7,000 poor migrants take this perilous journey every month; some 100,000 took it just last year. They are treated appallingly and go through horrendous conditions. This has to end,” said Abdiker.
The drownings happened just days after IOM helped 101 Ethiopians – including 51 women and 33 children – to leave Yemen for Djibouti, as fighting closed in around Yemen’s key port of Hodeidah.
They were stranded in Yemen and among the most vulnerable of about 300 refugees stuck in detention, IOM said.
“Both while travelling to and in Yemen, migrants are routinely abused by smugglers and other criminals, including physical and sexual abuse, torture for ransom, arbitrary detention for long periods of time, forced labour, and even death,” the statement said.
Some refugees got caught up in Yemen’s war and were wounded or killed or taken to detention centres, it added.
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Texas man nearly dies after being bitten by severed snake head
A Texan required 26 doses of anti-venom after he was bitten by the severed head of a rattlesnake he had killed.
Jennifer Sutcliffe told local station KIII-TV that her husband was working in the garden when he saw the four-foot (1.25m) rattlesnake and decapitated it.
When he picked up the snake’s remains to dispose of them, the head bit him.
A snake‘s bite reflex can be triggered up to several hours after it has died.
Ms. Sutcliffe told KIII-TV her husband immediately began to have seizures.
He was airlifted from his home near Corpus Christi to hospital where he was treated with the anti-venom CroFab.
More than a week after the incident, the man is reportedly in stable condition, with some weakened kidney function.
Leslie Boyer, an anti-venom doctor at the University of Arizona VIPER Institute, warned against attempting to kill snakes, particularly by cutting them.
“It’s cruel to the animal and it leaves you with a smaller piece that’s venomous to pick up,” she told the Gizmodo news site.
Iraqi parliament orders manual election recount
Iraq’s parliament has voted to carry out a manual recount of votes cast in last month’s legislative elections, amid allegations of widespread fraud.
MPs also replaced the leadership of the election commission and annulled the votes of overseas and displaced Iraqis.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned that security agencies had evidence of “unprecedented” violations.
He said the main issue was with the electronic vote-counting machines that were used for the first time on May 12.
It is still unclear whether Wednesday’s vote will affect the outcome of the election, reports said.
The official results gave 54 of the 328 seats in parliament to a nationalist alliance between the Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose militia once fought US troops, and a number of mostly secular parties.
A bloc linked to Iranian-backed Shia paramilitaries that have battled the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) over the past four years came second with 47 seats, while Mr. Abadi’s alliance was third with 42 seats.
Mr. Abadi told reporters on Tuesday that he had been in favour of accepting the result and working towards the formation of a new government, but that he changed his mind after studying a report by a committee comprising Iraq’s security and anti-corruption chiefs.
“In the beginning I said: ‘Let’s keep going and let the commission deal with the violations.’ There are violations each election, here and there.”
“The committee has revealed dangerous things, honestly. Yes, there may have been some violations by candidates but the election commission bears the largest share of the responsibility,” he added.
The prime minister accused members of the Independent High Election Commission (IHEC) of “not taking the needed measures or taking wrong ones,” including failing to check the vote-counting machines for errors.
He banned high-ranking IHEC officials from travelling abroad without his approval and said criminal charges might be brought against some individuals.
In Macedonia, Greece is torn between history and real politic
Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets across the country on Wednesday to protest against a reportedly imminent deal between Athens and its northern neighbour that would share Macedonian identity between the two peoples.
Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have been in talks since January to establish full diplomatic relations for the first time since the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Key to normalisation is finding a name for the country whose government resides in Skopje that Athens can live with.
The message in 24 rallies across Greece was a simple one: the use of the name Macedonia by Skopje is unacceptable. Speakers demanded a referendum.
“We don’t wish to be responsible for baptising the country next door,” said Mihalis Patsikas, an olive farmer and former gymnastics trainer, who helped organise 15 rallies across the northern Greek province of Macedonia.
“But they’re claiming our name, Macedonia, and any name containing that term is unacceptable. Is someone threatening us? Let our government tell us. We the people will face that threat. We won’t give in. Greeks have always fought back.”
About 2,000 people attended the rally in Pella, where archaeologists have begun to unearth the sprawling, 400-hectare metropolis that was the ancient Macedonian capital.
Just the palace of King Philip and his son, Alexander the Great, covers six hectares.
The consensus among classicists and archaeologists is that Skopje has no historic claim to the term Macedonia.
“In antiquity, Macedonia was the area that is now the northern province of Greece,” said Stephen Miller, professor of archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley.
