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| Nearly 300 inmates used Chile quake to escape, many later surrendered |
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| Nearly 300 female prisoners took advantage of a massive earthquake to escape from a jail in northern Chile, although many have since returned, authorities said on Wednesday. Local police said the prisoners fled after an offshore 8.2-magnitude earthquake that shook northern Chile on Tuesday, killing six people and triggering a tsunami with 2-meter (7-foot) waves. The jail, situated in the port town of Iquique, west of the Atacama Desert, was evacuated as it was at risk of being inundated by sea water. Gabriel Silber, a lawmaker in Chile's lower house of Congress said the women escaped when a prison wall collapsed. |
| Shooter at Fort Hood Army base in Texas, injuries reported - police |
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| A gunman opened fire in Fort Hood in central Texas on Wednesday, injuring an unknown number of people at the U.S. Army base that was the scene of a shooting rampage in 2009, officials said. "There has been a shooting at Fort Hood and injuries are reported. Central Texas College, which has a Fort Hood campus, ordered an immediate evacuation of all students and staff, and canceled all classes. |
| As court cases mount, survival hopes wane for troubled Thai PM |
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 By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - The legal cases are piling up fast against Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her party loyalists. During eight years of intermittent power struggles, Thailand's courts have become deeply politicised and their rulings haven't been kind to the Shinawatra family, whose parties and allies have been the country's undisputed electoral champions for more than a decade. Since 2006, judges have ruled that two governing parties controlled by Yingluck's brother and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra be dissolved, $1.4 billion of the family's assets confiscated, two election wins annulled and nearly 150 politicians banned for five years, including a prime minister whose appearances in a TV cooking show cost him his job. If five months of crippling street protests haven't been enough to contend with, her fate is now in the hands of Thailand's topsy-turvy, at times bewildering, checks and balances system.
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