Recent News Headlines : Chile
CHILE'S WORST WILDFIRES DESTROY TOWN AS DEATH TOLL RISES TO 11
Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 11... READ MORE›
'WE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING ON THIS SCALE'
About 42 percent of the forest fires are in plantation forests, which are like matchboxes, said Mary Kalin Arroyo of the University of Chile... READ MORE›
GLOBALISATION HAS MADE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
Chile today is Latin America's richest country, with per capita GDP of about 23,000 - similar to that of central European countries... READ MORE›
PULLING CLEAN WATER FROM THIN AIR
The machine works well enough that it is now being heralded as lifeline for people throughout Chile and South America who need access to clean water... READ MORE›
RICARDO LAGOS, EX-CHILE PRESIDENT, RUNS TO LEAD COUNTRY AGAIN
Lagos is well-known in Chile for his central role in the battle to bring democracy to the country in the 1980s... READ MORE›
POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE SHAKES CHILE ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Eight mostly small ports in the area were closed, Chile's Navy said... READ MORE›
MAJOR QUAKE JOLTS CHILE RESORT REGION; 21,000 HOMES LOSE POWER
Latam Airlines and Sky Airlines said their southern Chile routes were operating without major delays... READ MORE›
POWERFUL 7.7 EARTHQUAKE HITS CHILE
Approximately 4,000 people were evacuated from the Los Lagos area but officials have removed the initial tsunami warning... READ MORE›
SECRETS OF WORLD'S OLDEST MUMMIES ARE REVEALED BY DNA TESTS, SCANS
The 15 Chinchorro mummies, mostly children and unborn babies, were put through a CT scanner at the Los Condes clinic in the Chilean capital... READ MORE›
POWERFUL QUAKE SHAKES SOUTHERN CHILE, TSUNAMI WARNING CANCELLED
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 struck 225 kilometres southwest of Puerto Montt in southern Chile on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said... READ MORE›
SANTIAGO SWEATS IN RECORD-BREAKING SUMMER HEAT
Chile's capital Santiago has just broken a 100-year-old old record... READ MORE›
LATIN AMERICA'S SCHINDLER: A FORGOTTEN HERO OF THE 20TH CENTURY | EWEN MACASKILL
Roberto Kozak was born on 14 May 1942, in a rural village in north-east Argentina... READ MORE›
WORLD'S SMALLEST DEER MAKES DEBUT AT SAITAMA ZOO
SAITAMA - Four pudus, the world's smallest species of deer, made their debut Sunday at Saitama's Children Zoo in a first for Japan... READ MORE›
PATAGONIAN ICE MELTS AS CHILE EXPERIENCES ITS WORST DROUGHT ON RECORD
Both Sergio and Carmen work on properties in the Magallanes region, which is one of the most isolated areas of Chile... READ MORE›
MADE IN AMERICA ISN'T ABOUT GUILT OR INNOCENCE
So how does OJ Made in America manage to fill so much time covering the biggest celebrity trial of the 1990s?... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Chile
CHILE PLANS WORLD'S BIGGEST MARINE PARK TO PROTECT EASTER ISLAND FISH STOCKS
Despite the assurances, mistrust of the mainland runs high on Easter Island, over not just the marine park but almost everything... READ MORE›
CHEVRON HITS OUT AT BRITISH DOCUMENTARY ON OIL POLLUTION IN ECUADOR
Company upset over short film that uses Pablo Nerudaa??s famous poem on how US corporations treated Latin American countries as empty a??banana republicsa??... READ MORE›
10 PEOPLE KILLED AND A MILLION EVACUATED
Tsunami warnings have been issued in Chile and Peru, following a strong earthquake near Iquique... READ MORE›
CHILE PROPOSES TO END ABORTION BAN
Related Stories Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has announced plans to end a total ban on abortions in the predominantly Roman Catholic country... READ MORE›
POWERFUL 8.3-MAGNITUDE QUAKE SHAKES CHILE CAPITAL
A powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Chile Wednesday night in the community of Illapel 142 miles north of Santiago leaving at least three people dead... READ MORE›
AFRICAN COURT CONVICTS CAPTAIN OF RENEGADE SHIP IN ILLEGAL FISHING CASE
Prosecutors from Sao Tome and Principe and Sea Shepherd officials speculated that the Thunder's captain had sunk the ship on purpose to dispose of evidence... READ MORE›
WHERE IS THE WORLD'S MOST HI-TECH CITY? (AND IT'S NOT SAN FRANCISCO ...)
With all its built-in computational power, Songdo aims to go beyond the concept of the high technology smart city to become a technologically ubiquitous city ... READ MORE›
SANTIAGO JOURNAL ALONGSIDE A DOCTORS CARE A DOSE OF TRADITIONAL HEALING
The indigenous health care providers in the south of the country mostly serve the Mapuche community... READ MORE›
CHILEA??S LARGEST CITY TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN DUE TO SMOG 'EMERGENCY'
Measures relaxed on Monday night after cars were ordered off streets of Santiago, businesses shut and 7 million residents told to stay indoors... READ MORE›
CHILEAN SUPREME COURT ORDERS HALT TO MINE
The court upheld an appeal filed on the El Morro mine by the Diaguita community in northern Chile... READ MORE›
PLANE MISSING FOR HALF CENTURY FOUND IN ANDES
Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz told Chile's Channel 7 they're keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting... READ MORE›
WORLD WINE OUTPUT NEAR 20-YEAR LOW AS RAIN FROST HIT VINEYARDS
World Wine Output Near 20-Year Low as Rain, Frost Hit Vineyards... READ MORE›
'I'M CARMEN. NICE TO MEET YOU AGAIN'
Two years ago, soon after seeing Oughton denied parole for the 14th time, Laura and I requested to meet him face to face... READ MORE›
CHILE'S SAME-SEX COUPLES CELEBRATE CIVIL UNIONS
Chile's same-sex couples celebrate civil unions history changes today... READ MORE›
CHILEAN CAPITAL SUSPENDS HEAVY INDUSTRY AND TAKES CARS OFF ROAD TO DEAL WITH SMOG CRISIS
Air pollution in Santiago has got so bad that the country's Environment Ministry has had to issue an environmental state of emergency warning... READ MORE›
MANUEL CONTRERAS CHILEAN SPY CHIEF DIES AT 86
Augusto Pinochet died on Friday in the military hospital in Santiago while serving 526 years of multiple prison terms for human rights violations... READ MORE›
TRIAL OF FORMER CHILE MILITARY OFFICER FOR MURDER OF VICTOR JARA OPENS IN FLORIDA
Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nunez accused of torturing and killing folk singer with Jara's widow, Joan, expected to testify in Orlando federal courtroom... READ MORE›
FORMER CHILEAN MILITARY OFFICERS JAILED FOR 1974 DEATH OF PRESIDENT BACHELET'S FATHER
The two men tortured general Alberto Bachelet, father of current President Michelle Bachelet, after his imprisonment for treason during the Pinochet regime... READ MORE›
CHILE'S PRESIDENT 'OVERCOME BY EMOTION' AFTER ILL GIRL, 14, MAKES EUTHANASIA PLEA
Chile's president 'overcome by emotion' after ill girl, 14, makes euthanasia plea... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S FIRST 46 BILLION PIXEL IMAGE OF THE MILKY WAY IS JAW-DROPPING
To be able to stitch every image together the finished image took weeks of calculations in order to remove and identify any variables between each image... READ MORE›
FORMER CHILEAN MILITARY OFFICERS FACE MURDER CHARGES FOR 1986 BURNING ATTACK
Six former officers were charged with premeditated murder in the burning death of Rodrigo Rojas and attempted homicide in the case of Carmen Quintana... READ MORE›
'LONDON ISN'T JUST ONE PEOPLE': THE INTERNATIONAL FAMILIES AT HOME IN THE CAPITAL
London isn't just one people, it's a mix my mother is Chilean and my father is Jamaican-Chinese, so I'm basically a Londoner... READ MORE›
KEEP CALM BUT NASA MAY HAVE SPOTTED 'SIGNS OF ALIEN LIFE' ON MARS
Mysterious 'cauliflower-looking' formations on Mars could have been deposited by ancient alien life experts have said. The deposits of opaline silica were initially spotted inside Mars'... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS OF CHILEAN SAME-SEX COUPLES EAGERLY AWAIT LEGALIZATION OF CIVIL UNIONS
Registry offices in one of Latin Americaa??s more conservative countries will begin granting civil unions to gay and lesbian partners on Thursday... READ MORE›
HELICOPTER EXPLODES AFTER SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL ON STREETS OF SANTIAGO, CHILE
Video Helicopter explodes after spinning out of control on streets of Santiago, Chile... READ MORE›
RARE FALCON EGG SEIZED FROM SMUGGLER HATCHES AND IS RETURNED TO WILD IN CHILE
The Chileans alerted their Brazilian counterparts, who arrested Lendrum at Sao Paulo airport with an incubator containing four albino peregrine falcon eggs... READ MORE›
'F**K OFF BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY YOUS N****RS' - VILE RACIST MESSAGES POSTED ABOUT IRISH JUNIOR BASKETBALL TEAM
GARDAI have been called in after the Irish junior basketball team were subjected to a vile racist rant online... READ MORE›
MAGNITUDE-8.3 TEMBLOR JOLTS CHILE'S CAPITAL, PROMPTS TSUNAMI ALERT ACROSS PACIFIC
A powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Chile on Wednesday, killing at least five people, forcing the evacuation of 1 million and sparking warnings... READ MORE›
TOP INTERNATIONAL SKIERS JEAN PHILLIPEA AUCLAIR AND CARL ANDREAS FRANSSON FOUND DEAD AFTER CHILE AVALANCHE
Top international skiers jean phillipe auclair and carl andreas fransson found dead after chile avalanche... READ MORE›
SERGIO ARELLANO STARK CHILEAN GENERAL WHO LED DEATH SQUAD DIES AT 94
General Arellano was a principal architect of the coup of Sept. 11, 1973, that installed Augusto Pinochet, a fellow army general, as president... READ MORE›