Chile has to repay the inheritance of former dictator Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006) about 4.4 million euros, so a judge has decided in the South American country. In 2004, an investigation into the eclipse of government funds was seized by Pinochet on land, cars and secret bank assets.
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.
A large fire in the Chilean coastal city of Valparaiso has ensured that at least a hundred houses in flames are gone and another 500 homes are in danger of being affected by the fire. There are 19 people injured and evacuated more than four hundred people.
The Chilean navy has fallen into disrepute because aboard a warship female staff were spied upon by male colleagues. At least that is the suspicion at least eight people on board the frigate Admiral Lynch, according to media in the South American country.
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.
Tens of thousands of Cubans Fidel Castro Monday proven their last respects. The crowd gathered early in the Revolution Square with the monument of national hero José Martí. At the memorial ceremony were 21 gun salute in advance.
Cuba has begun nine days of mourning after the death of Fidel Castro. The unto death beloved and hated Cuban leader died Friday at the age of 90. Public life in Cuba is going through, but slightly more subdued than usual. On the street, no additional police presence.
Havana has come to an end the life of one of the most controversial leaders of the last century: Fidel Castro Ruz. Hated by Cubans who fled his revolution and dictatorship. Reviled in Washington because US politicians communist rate as flat saw under Florida as a personal insult. And, with millions of Latin Americans, still well liked because Castro finally dared to stand up to the big northern neighbor.
Now the elected US president Donald Trump wants as quickly as possible TPP, Chinese President Xi Jinping plays in handy, by the ties with Latin America significantly tighten. He just wants to get more out of the free trade agreement between twelve countries around the Pacific Ocean.
Chilean police in 'Operation Holland 'in their own words one of the largest ecstasy seizures made. Two Dutch are thereby arrested in the capital Santiago. They are suspicious of them to sit behind the smuggling of ecstasy to Chile and have to sell the drugs, local media reported this weekend.
In Argentina condemned fifteen former soldiers to abduct and murder of leftist dissidents in the framework of Operation Condor. The ruling was enthusiastically welcomed by human rights activists.
Lions in the Zoo of Santiago in Chile on Saturday attacked a visitor and seriously injured. The 20-year-old Franco Luis Ferrada had asked for it: He had the eyes of countless visitors over the fence of the housing of the lions climbed. Initially, the animals ignored him, but after the man she challenged, they attacked.
Margot Honecker, widow of the former communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Erich Honecker, is deceased. That media reported in Chile, the country where she lived. Honecker became 89 years old.
By storms across central Chile are an estimated four million people without drinking water. Heavy rain has caused landslides and rivers to burst their banks. Certainly a person died and the world's largest copper mine had to cease production.
A Boeing 777 of Emirates airline landing Wednesday after more than 14,000 kilometers and 17 hours and 15 minutes flight in Auckland, New Zealand. This is the record for the longest flight distance ever broken. The plane is flying Tuesday from Dubai.
