Emergency services get shocked puma from tree
santiago January 4, 2019 15:32Barking 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...
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The west coast of Chile has been hit by an earthquake with a force of 7.1.
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.
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.
The shooter of the deadly shootings at the airport in Fort Lauderdale had to hand his gun late last year when he underwent a mental examination. The ex-soldier had his weapon back, because he had done nothing wrong, the police said Saturday.
The shooter Friday in Fort Lauderdale in Florida shot and killed five people, was already on the radar of the FBI. Iraq veteran Esteban Santiago (26) had in November itself reported to the FBI in Alaska that he commands about Islamic state heard in his head.
The man who five people Friday (local time) shot dead at the Fort Lauderdale airport is very likely an Iraq veteran. It would be the 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. This was reported by the local sheriff.
Fidel Castro ash is buried Sunday at Santa Ifigenia cemetery, 2.7 kilometers from the barracks where he started his revolution in Cuba. The state radio station Radio Reloj said that this is done in private.
To counter the cult of the deceased Fidel Castro, there should be no statues come from him or streets and squares to 'El Comandante' be named. That his brother, current President Raul Castro Saturday in Santiago de Cuba said in front of tens of thousands of Cubans.
The last trip of Fidel Castro is over. A military convoy brought the urn containing the ashes of the deceased leader of the revolution Saturday the city of Santiago de Cuba inside, watched beaten by tens of thousands of people were lined up along the streets. Castro's final resting place is considered the birthplace of the communist revolution.
' Viva Fidel, '' shouted thousands of Cubans Tuesday from the Revolution Square in Havana. Together with head of state Raul Castro and leftist leaders of friendly countries, such as the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, they commemorated their deceased former leader Fidel Castro.
The urn with the ashes of Fidel Castro begins Wednesday in Havana on a journey along some Cuban cities to about 900 kilometers away Santiago de Cuba. There, buried the deceased former leader of Cuba Sunday.
Sunday Barack Obama will not attend the burial of the urn with the ashes of Fidel Castro. This was announced by the White House on Monday. Vice President Joe Biden also will not go to the ceremony in Santiago de Cuba, in the southeast of the country.