In case of a major earthquake off the west coast of Chile, two people were killed, reports the Chilean earthquake service. The epicenter of the quake of 6.7 was according to the American seismological...
Barking dogs have frightened a puma in a suburb of the Chilean capital, Santiago, that he sought refuge in a treetop and could not get out of it. After two...
The Chilean government decided not to sign the agreement one day before signing the UN Migration Pact in Morocco. 'Our position is clear. Migration is not a right ', says the deputy minister of the Interior against a local newspaper. 'Countries are free to decide on what conditions they allow people.'
The Chilean police have invaded four dioceses because of a major abuse case in the country. Information gathered by the police in the investigation showed that more documents could be found in Concepcion, Chillan, Valparaiso and Osorno that could be of value in the research.
The number of cases of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Chile is much greater than expected. The Public Prosecution Service announced Friday 119 cases, three times as much than a month ago.
A Chilean man (29) who was furious after a flight about his missing suitcase, has stung aviation in his country with a series of bomb threats directed at at least four aircraft. As a result, a total of eleven scheduled flights had to evade and air traffic in Chile, Peru and Argentina was disrupted.
28-year-old ex-military Esteban Santiago who shot five people at Fort Lauderdale airport in 2017 and wounded six others, has to spend the rest of his life in prison. A judge in Miami sentenced him Friday to five times for life and six times twenty years.
Four aircraft have made an emergency landing in Chile and Peru after bomb threats. That has been announced by Chilean air traffic control.
Chile was the first country in Latin America to ban the issuance of plastic bags by shops on Friday. In the case of supermarket chains, plastic bags must have disappeared within six months; for smaller shops, a transitional arrangement of two years applies.
Dozens of people were injured by a fire on a Spanish tourist boat. The emergency services have certainly transferred five victims with burns to hospitals, reports Spanish media.
The Chilean police have invaded the offices of two archbishops in the investigation into sexual abuse by Catholic clergymen in the country. The raids were made in the cities Temuco and Villarrica, south of the capital Santiago, in the Araucania region.
A Chilean miner who has been stuck for 69 days due to the collapse of a mine has every confidence in the successful outcome of the rescue operation in Thailand. The authorities are trying to get a youth football team out of a flooded cave system.
Almost 45 years after the death of the well-known Chilean singer Victor Jara, nine suspects have been convicted. Eight former soldiers were given prison sentences of fifteen years for the murder of the artist and another victim. A ninth person disappears five years behind the bars.
A cluster of volcanoes, known as Nevados de Chillán, in southern Chile can erupt within 'a few days or weeks'. That reports the national disaster agency of Chile.
All Chilean bishops have submitted their resignation to Pope Francis. The 34 church fathers want to pay penalties for an abuse scandal that has kept Chile in its grip for some time.
In case of an accident with a bus that was dumped from a cliff in the south of Chile, at least two employees of the Chilean army were killed.
A team of scientists has, after years of thorough research, discovered the origin of an enigmatic mummified skeleton.
Thirteen people were killed by a helicopter crash in Mexico. The military aircraft, including the Minister of the Interior and the governor of the state of Oaxaca on board, made an inspection flight in the area that was hit by an earthquake on Friday. Because of the unknown cause, the landing in Santiago Jamiltepec collapsed on a van and people who wanted to welcome the visit.
Pope Francis sends a confidant to Chile to get an explanation of the behavior of Juan Barros, the bishop of Osorno. This is accused of having protected a pedophile priest who has taken care of minors. The Pope recently received considerable criticism during his visit to the South American country about his handling of that case of sexual abuse.
The Chilean poet and mathematician and physicist Nicanor Parra died at the age of 103. President Michelle Bachelet announced that on Tuesday via Twitter. 'Chile has lost one of the greatest writers in the history of our literature and a unique voice in Western culture,' she wrote.
Pope Francis has married two lovers during a flight between two Chilean cities. They asked the church prince for his blessing, on which Francis proposed to go a step further.
On his visit to Chile, Pope Francis regretted the sexual abuse of children by priests in the South American country on Tuesday.
Shortly before the visit of Pope Francis three Catholic churches in Chile were attacked. The attacks with incendiary bombs on churches in the capital Santiago caused damage to facades and broken windows.
Billionaire and former president Sebastian Piñera is once again the new Head of State of Chile. He won the presidential election Sunday of the center-left politician Alejandro Guillier, with more than 54 percent of the votes, reports the electoral council. Guillier congratulated his announcement of the official result of his conservative competitor.
The Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte dismissed the chief of the national anti-drugs office for corruption. Dionisio Santiago must clear the field because he would have received gifts from drug lords. He had only been in service for four months.
Billionaire and former president Sebastian Piñera leads Sunday in the first round of the presidential elections in Chile. The right-wing candidate has the support of more than 36 percent of voters.
Researchers have again questioned the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. After the discovery of an unknown bacterium, Spanish forensic specialists are no longer sure that Neruda has died of the effects of cancer.
The Belgian-Argentinian Geerts family has gone on world-wide since the end of July, with unimaginably high setbacks. The family was first in the Caribbean, but could escape for the devastating Hurricane Irma. The family fled to Mexico, but is now in the midst of an earthquake area, where they can not cope with that other hurricane, Katia.
Two Venezuelan judges nominated by parliament for a post in the Supreme Court sought refuge in the Chilean embassy in Caracas. Beatriz Ruiz Marin and José Nunez Sifontes are 'guests' of the embassy, confirmed the Chilean Foreign Minister on Tuesday (local time).
The Chilean Supreme Court has given a man a punishment that removed his partner's eyes. According to the BBC, the verdict led to enormous commotion in the South American country, where last year a lot of fuss was raised about the extreme violence against the victim.
