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CONCEPCION, Chile,  (Reuters) – One of the world’s  most powerful earthquakes in a century battered Chile today, killing at least 214 people, knocking down buildings  and triggering a tsunami that threatened Pacific coastlines as  far away as Hawaii and Russia.

A huge fire broke out at La Jalousie, West Coast Demerara at 11.40 pm yesterday and at press time three buildings were engulfed and the fire service was desperately trying to save a fourth.

Trinidad police suspect a suicide pact in the death of a couple whose bodies were discovered in an apartment in Longdenville, Chaguanas, yesterday.

Dear Editor, Miners are seeking tiny fraction of the forest for direct mining.

Race car driver Peter Morgan was this afternoon sentenced to ten years in jail by a Brooklyn Federal Court on a drug trafficking charge but could be out in six years based on the period he has already been incarcerated.

Two prisoners died early this morning after they fought each other at the Georgetown Prisons.

Amidst growing concern over a government proposal for a six-month waiting period before mining can commence, Barticians plan to shut down the mining town on Monday, February 1st in protest.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A teenage girl was pulled alive from under a collapsed house in Port-au-Prince today, 15 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti’s destroyed capital today, two weeks after a massive earthquake rattled the country.

(Trinidad Express) She did it! Excoriated as a weakling incapable of leading and hiding a drinking weakness, Kamla Persad-Bissessar proved last night she had the political strength to beat two political legends.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – International rescuers  today pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the  rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11  days after the earthquake that devastated the city.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A new earthquake shook  the devastated Haitian capital this morning, creating  panic among survivors of last week’s devastating quake camped  out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is  open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies  and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds,  waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Cuban government has  agreed to let the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities said  today they believe 140,000 people were killed in the  earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation and said gangs  of robbers were preying on survivors desperately awaiting aid.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of  food and medicine streamed into Haiti yesterday to aid a  traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the  catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government  buildings and buried countless people.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Several bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the U.N.

Many scientists say, that the claim that co2 gases is the cause of climate change, is the biggest scam perpetrated on mankind within the last 100 years.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Eleven Brazilian soldiers from  a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti were killed in the  Caribbean country’s huge earthquake, Brazil’s army said in a  statement today.

Two houses have been ravaged and three others scorched after a disgruntled woman reportedly set fire to a local actor’s home some time before 10 last night.