Ieng Thirith, the former social affairs minister for the Khmer Rouge who has been jailed since 2007, has been found unfit to stand trial at the UN-backed tribunal and is scheduled to be released Friday morning. We are continuing to receive reports on this volcano story. It then covered Guatemala City with a layer of ash, closing the airport, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of families. This is the second big eruption in the last two years for the country following the eruption of Pacaya in 2010, which is one of Guatemala's four active volcanoes. Amongst them are five pregnant women and four people with disabilities, one person, who is not self-mobile and arrived in a plastic chair, because they do not have a wheelchair, and this is what is worrying us the most as well." According to authorities, some 8000 people have been evacuated and an additional 23000 are awaiting evacuation in towns surrounding the massive volcano. "At the moment, we have accounted for 304 people, we have 97 boys, 93 girls, 95 women and 19 men. This Red Cross volunteer explained how many people there were currently receiving aid at the centre. With little time to prepare for the sudden evacuation, Red Cross officials and volunteers were called in to help terrified families settle into temporary shelter at a local school in the Santa Lucia municipality. Guatemala's Fuego volcano has erupted, spewing out smoke and ash, forcing the widespread evacuation of thousands of Guatemalans living in the shadow of the massive volcano. One of the youths climbed up the flagpole to. Hours after nightfall, dozens of young men remained standing on top of the embassy walls, shouting into megaphones. Some of them climbed the embassy walls late Tuesday, pulling down and burning an American flag. To the east, in Cairo, a crowd of some 2000 people gathered at the Embassy to protest the video. Clinton said the State Department was working with Libyans to secure the compound and protect Americans in Libya. One State Department officer was killed in the attack in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night. A government brigade evacuated the consulate, after which militants set it on fire, said the minister, Wanees Sharef. In Benghazi, Libya, several dozen gunmen from an Islamist group, Ansar al Sharia, attacked the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades to protest the film, a deputy interior minister for the Benghazi region told the Al-Jazeera network. It has been promoted by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose burning of Qurans previously sparked deadly riots around the world. Angry protests over the film by a US producer, directed and produced by an Israeli-American real-estate developer who characterized it as a political effort to call attention to the hypocrisies of Islam. The movie, "Innocence of Muslims," that mocks and insults the Prophet Muhammad caused demonstrators to attack a US consulate in Libya, killing one American, and breached the walls of the US Embassy in Cairo.
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