GUATEMALA CITY – Fire rescue personnel found the charred bodies of two brothers alongside a little-traveled road in Amatitlan, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of this capital, Guatemalan authorities said Thursday.
The bodies were apparently burned at the scene, a spokesman for fire rescue told reporters.
Relatives identified the victims as brothers Gustavo and Alex Hernandez Paiz, ages 25 and 22, respectively.
The men were last seen Wednesday afternoon as they left their home in Amatitlan, a police spokesman said. Unconfirmed media accounts described the brothers as criminals who preyed on their neighbors.
Guatemala is considered one of the most violent countries in Latin America.
A total of 4,132 murders were registered in the Central American country between January and August, up 5.84 percent from the 3,904 killings registered during the same period last year, the National Forensic Sciences Institute said. EFE
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A member of the Free Syrian Army stands guard at a checkpoint they took over early on Monday after clashes with pro-government forces in Salqin city in Idlib October 22, 2012.
A number of girls from Tunisia have become pregnant after traveling to Syria to participate in "sexual jihad," according to Lotfi Bin Jeddo, Tunisia's Interior Minister.
The girls “are (sexually) swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts in the name of sexual jihad and we are silent doing nothing and standing idle,” Al Arabiya reported he said during an address to the National Constituent Assembly.
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"After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of 'jihad al-nikah' - (sexual holy war, in Arabic) - they come home pregnant," Ben Jeddou told the MPs.
He did not elaborate on how many Tunisian women had returned to the country pregnant with the children of jihadist fighters.
Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.
Jeddo also said his ministry had taken a number of steps to stem the flow of Tunisians travelling to Syria.
Tunisia's former Mufti (the country's highest religious official) warned earlier this year that 13 Tunisian girls "were fooled" into travelling to Syria to offer sexual services for the rebels. He described the practice as a form of “prostitution.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Android users can now text each other in Navajo thanks to a new app.
KUNM-FM reports that the company Native Innovations recently released the Navajo Keyboard app to allow smart phone users to practice their skills in the Native American language through text messaging and social media.
The new app comes loaded with all of the traditional Navajo characters and 65 pre-made phrases to help beginners through any basic conversation. It can also act as a user's primary keyboard.
Native Innovations President Jerome Tsosie says the Navajo Keyboard has been available to iPhone users since February. But because there are more android users on the Navajo Nation, Tsosie says the android release was in high demand.
Police in Yamanashi Prefecture have have arrested a Russian woman for throwing her 4-year-old son from a pleasure boat while on a cruise at Lake Yamanaka.
According to police, the 33-year-old woman, who lives in Yamanakako, was arrested after she allegedly threw her son off the deck of the boat and into the water at around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday, TBS reported.
Police say the woman’s Japanese husband jumped into the water to rescue the boy, who was not injured in the incident. The woman was arrested on a charge of attempted murder.
During police questioning, she was quoted by police as saying that she had had a fight with her husband and threw the boy into the water with the intention of killing him and then committing suicide by jumping in herself, TBS reported.