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.'
Was it due to a meteor, a nuclear exercise? Scientists are puzzled by a series of mysterious seismic waves that crossed the world on 11 November.
Chile does not have to negotiate with neighboring Bolivia on a corridor to the Pacific Ocean. The International Court of Appeal in The Hague ruled this on Monday. The verdict is a setback for the government of President Evo Morales of Bolivia.
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.
The Ecuadorian government creates a humanitarian corridor for refugees from Venezuela. Through this corridor, the refugees are taken to the border with Peru by buses. Many Venezuelans try to travel on foot through the Andes country to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
Pope Francis, who was confronted with countless instances of sexual abuse of minors by priests in various countries, has written a letter on unprecedented paws about these scandals. He called on all Roman Catholics in the world to help 'eradicate this culture of death'.
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.
Chilean former president Michelle Bachelet is the new High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly voted unanimously on Friday with her appointment.
Ecuador has declared a state of emergency because of the unusually large number of Venezuelan migrants crossing the northern border with Colombia. The Venezuelans flee their country because of the economic crisis.
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.
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.
Belgian customs found 56 kilos of cocaine in counterfeit pineapples in the port of Antwerp. The party has been confiscated. The drugs, with a market value of several millions, were hidden between real pineapples in fake copies, reports the Antwerp prosecutor.
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.
Pope Francis has received three victims of abuse within the church in Chile at the Vatican. It involved three men who were abused with others by the Chilean minister and teacher of priests Fernando Karadima.
The last flamingo of Australia is no longer. The Adelaide City Zoo put Chile to sleep on Friday (local time) because the health of the over 60-year-old animal deteriorated dramatically, according to Australian media.
The origin of the enigmatic mini-mummy from Chile, which was seen by many as an alien creature, is well known. The tiny, only 15 centimeter long mummified skeleton with the strangely stretched skull and the big eye sockets is human, feminine to be precise. That is certain after five years of intensive DNA research and comparison with the genome of chimpanzee and rhesus monkey.
In the abusive scandal around the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's envoy, heard the first testimony of an abuse victim.
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.
With the help of an American gift in Chile a new nature park has been created as big as Switzerland, thanks to the now deceased founder of clothing brand the North Face and his ex-wife and widow, for years the CEO of a competitor.
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.
