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.
Eleven countries around the Pacific will sign the new TPP free trade agreement in March without the United States. Washington stepped out of the treaty a year ago.
After criticizing his remarks about a case of abuse in South America, Pope Francis apologized for his choice of words. He made a mistake when he said last week in Chile that there was 'no evidence' against the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, the Catholic church chief said Monday.
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 Argentinian government only knew after the press had sounded an alarm that the submarine San Juan was missing.
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.
Argentina is assisted in the search for the submarine ARA San Juan by, among others, Great Britain and the United States. The British search with a ship for the submarine, with which no contact has been since Wednesday. The Americans participate in the search with two naval vessels.
For the first time since independence in Chile, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, visited Barcelona in the Catalan Parliament last month. He went to a party meeting of his People's Party (PP) in Catalonia and called for an end to 'separatist devastation.'
The earth throws a room on Friday. It is about the US spacecraft OSIRIS-REX, which is heading for an asteroid. As the probe flies, the earth's gravity gives him a swipe so that he can cross.
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.
For the Belgian coast a eyebrow batros has been photographed. A rare observation, because this species of birds is predominantly on the Falkland Islands and in Chile.
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.
A forest fire in the middle of Portugal killed at least 43 people. Below is an overview of recent forest fires where deaths have fallen.
Floods after heavy rainfall in northern Chile have killed two dead and about 1500 people had to be evacuated. The government announced Sunday the state of emergency in the region.
The west coast of Chile has been hit by an earthquake with a force of 7.1.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant galaxy from when the universe was only 1.6 billion years old. Scientists are puzzled, because the size of the relatively new system goes against all prevailing theories.
By storms and landslides are in the Chilean capital Santiago four million people without water. The Maipo River is so polluted as a result of the natural disasters that it is temporarily not suitable for water extraction.
Floods in Chile with four people killed. More than a thousand people have been closed in the mountains near the capital of the world outside of Santiago, said local authorities.
sure nineteen people died in a bus accident in Argentina. Among the dead are three children, the BBC reports. The accident happened in the Andes, near the border with Chile.
In a bus accident in the Andes are Saturday at least nineteen deaths. The bus was en route via route 7 to Chile, has been hit by yet unknown reasons the road and drove to the mountain.
Metal prices going through the roof. Reduction of production in Asia and problems in large mines cause sharp increases in palladium, lead and platinum.
Chile has the massive wildfires that raged the past two weeks, under control. President Michelle Bachelet reported that Saturday no new fires more to come and that the state of emergency is lifted.
In the fight against the worst wildfires in the history of Chile achieved the first successes. The forestry department (Conaf) could report Sunday night local time are extinguished eleven of the 124 fires and 55 others under control. The conflagrations are the authorities so far eleven people died and laid down a certain area of 3650 square kilometers in the ashes.
The death toll from forest fires in Chile rose further. Ten people are deceased, including five firefighters and two police officers.
Chile may deploy the largest firefighting aircraft in the world to fight massive wildfires. Benefactors in the United States pay for the deployment of the Boeing 747-400.
The FBI does not mean Esteban Santiago with his shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport had terrorist motives. The research indicates that the 26-year-old Iraq veteran his attack in any case, had planned carefully.
