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New video shows trapped Chilean miners in good spirits

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A new video by trapped miners in Chile shows them in good spirits, with shaved faces, wearing new clothes and sleeping on camp beds.

In an interview with CNN Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated her earlier characterization of the weekend shooting rampage outside an Arizona supermarket as an example of “extremism.”

Six miners were killed and two were injured in an accident at an illegal gold mine in eastern Venezuela, the country’s minister of basic industry and mines said Tuesday.

Tens of thousands of residents began evacuating Sunday morning from coastal Japan in anticipation of a possible tsunami following Chile’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

The United Kingdom has “no doubt” about its sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a British government minister said Tuesday.

The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state rose to 549 people Saturday, Brazil’s official news agency reported.

As floodwaters receded in some parts of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the devastation from flooding in Brazil continued to climb Wednesday, and the death toll nationwide reached at least 765.

At least 19 people died and 23 were injured in a Tuesday morning crash between a truck and a bus on a highway near Chile’s capital, officials said.

Former President Bill Clinton plans to return to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.

On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city, and large stretches of surrounding countryside, were devastated.

Family members of the deposed Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are reportedly in Canada, a development now being denounced by some in the Tunisian community there.

A top Panamanian official was negotiating Friday with banana plantation strikers, one day after violent confrontations with federal troops in Bocas del Toro province left one protester dead and more than 100 injured, a government spokesman said.

The first group of political prisoners freed by the Cuban government has arrived in Madrid, the capital of Spain, and briefly posed for photographs at a news conference.

Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.

As Sunday night fell on Chile, heavily populated parts of the country were without water and electricity, and reports of looting raised fears about security in some areas.

Tropical Storm Paula pushed across western Cuba Thursday evening with wind gusts just under hurricane strength in some places, bringing heavy rain and high winds to the island nation, forecasters said.


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