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AFP - A faster drilling machine was being assembled Saturday to enlarge an existing supply shaft to 33 Chilean trapped miners, as work on the main shaft continued and a special rescue cage was being built by the Navy.

AP - Mexican police have arrested six suspects in a bar fire that killed eight in the resort city of Cancun.

AFP - Three drilling machines will try to dig out 33 miners trapped for a month underground, the engineer in charge of the rescue operation said Friday, as work at the main shaft resumed.

Reuters - Two members of Mexico's Congress were among six people killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.

AP - The captain of an overcrowded Haitian boat that capsized in 2009, killing at least nine people, has been sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison.

AFP - Three drilling machines will try to dig out 33 miners trapped for a month underground, the engineer in charge of the rescue operation said Friday, as work at the main shaft resumed.

Reuters - Two members of Mexico's Congress and two local politicians were killed on Friday when their private plane crashed near a popular Mexican Pacific beach resort, officials said.

Reuters - The embezzlement trial of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, accused of stealing millions of dollars of public funds and wanted in the United States, began Friday in a Guatemalan court.