Honduran Authorities

A newlywed Israeli couple on their honeymoon collided while zip-lining in Honduras, leaving the husband dead and the wife seriously injured, Honduran authorities said.

Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm on Wednesday in the wake of the Paris attacks launched by Syria-linked jihadists.

Three inmates were killed, including one who was shot in the head, during a riot at an overcrowded Honduran prison on Wednesday that left another 32 people injured, authorities said.

Press freedom groups on Tuesday urged Honduran authorities to thoroughly investigate the slaying of a broadcast journalist who was shot to death outside his home last week.

Authorities on Monday suspended the search for eight miners trapped in a collapsed gold mine in southern Honduras, citing the danger to rescuers.

One person was killed and another injured on Tuesday when their small plane loaded with cocaine made a forced landing near the eastern Honduran town of Catacamas, authorities said. The spokesman for the security ministry, Hector Ivan Mejia, told reporters that the incident occurred in the early hours.

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...

A newlywed Israeli couple on their honeymoon collided while zip-lining in Honduras, leaving the husband dead and the wife seriously injured, Honduran authorities said.

Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm on Wednesday in the wake of the Paris attacks launched by Syria-linked jihadists.

Three inmates were killed, including one who was shot in the head, during a riot at an overcrowded Honduran prison on Wednesday that left another 32 people injured, authorities said.

Press freedom groups on Tuesday urged Honduran authorities to thoroughly investigate the slaying of a broadcast journalist who was shot to death outside his home last week.

Authorities on Monday suspended the search for eight miners trapped in a collapsed gold mine in southern Honduras, citing the danger to rescuers.

One person was killed and another injured on Tuesday when their small plane loaded with cocaine made a forced landing near the eastern Honduran town of Catacamas, authorities said. The spokesman for the security ministry, Hector Ivan Mejia, told reporters that the incident occurred in the early hours.

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...