Two deaths are attributed to the big earthquake in Chile – A prime opposition leader is banned from Venezuela’s congress – And who crashed that drone? – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least two people are dead in the magnitude-8.2 earthquake that struck northern Chile.  The mayor of Taracapa says the two fatalities were heart attacks.  But daylight is still hours away, and there will be a more thorough accounting of damage and injuries as more and more areas of the arid mining country become accessible.  There are reportedly several people injured, and rockslides are blocking highways.

The death toll from the giant mudslide north of Seattle, Washington is now 28 lives lost with 20 people still unaccounted for.  The search and recovery has gotten a little easier as the rain has tapered off and flooding is receding, giving the crews a chance to get into the rubble of crushed homes and see what is inside.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tried to enter the National Assembly as reclaim her seat, but was turned back.  The Supreme Court already confirmed her expulsion not for speaking against the elected government at an international conference, but for doing so as the guest of neighboring Panama, technically making Machada the agent of a foreign government – something that runs contrary to Venezuela’s constitution.  The wealthy, well-traveled conservative is a friend of former US President George W. Bush and was a signatory to the document that purported to rationalize the failed coupe d’etat against President Hugo Chavez in 2002.

Police in Kenya arrested more than 650 people following a bomb attack that left six people dead and more than 20 injured in an area of the capital Nairobi known as “Little Mogadishu” for its large Somali community.  Police and troops went door-to-door looking for supporters of the terrorist group al-Shabab, which carried out the deadly attack on an upscale mall last year.

South Korea and the US are working to identify a mysterious, if aged, drone aircraft that crashed on a border island a day after South and North Korea traded artillery fire.  Analysts say there’s a great probability it was operated by Pyongyang.  On Monday, North Korea fired 100 artillery rounds into the sea on the South Korean side of the maritime border, prompting Seoul to fire its own rounds back into northern waters. No one was injured in the exchange.

Bulgaria has put its air force on high alert about 30 times and even scrambled some planes within the past two months.  It’s because of the recent spike in Russian military aircraft flying near its aerial borders on the Black Sea.  The Russians have been conducting military exercises over the Black Sea, near the NATO member.  Bulgaria was part of the old Soviet Union’s sphere of influence from 1946 to 1990, but has looked to the west ever since and joined NATO a decade ago.