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SANTIAGO: A fire in an informal immigrant neighborhood in the southern Chilean city of Coronel left 14 dead, most of them children, on Monday night, according to local authorities. Hugo Cuevas, the city's chief prosecutor, said the victims appear to be undocumented Venezuelan immigrants. "They just arrived, they've been here in Coronel for just a short time, it couldn't be more than a month," said one neighbor, who did not give his name. Residents of the area, a working-class neighborhood lined with dirt roads and tin-roofed houses,...