Chile

Chile expected to reject overhaul of dictatorship-era constitution

Santiago, Chile (AFP) by Paulina ABRAMOVICH / Paula BUSTAMANTE Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to choose whether to…

Chile defense minister’s home robbed, presidential car stolen

  SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) -- The home of Chilean Defense Minister Maya Fernandez was robbed by attackers who beat her…

Three shot in Chile May Day clashes

  SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) -- Three people were wounded by gunfire and two arrested in clashes at May Day demonstrations…

New microscopic organisms found in deep sea trench baffle Chile scientists

MEJILLONE, Chile (AFP) -- When Chilean scientist Osvaldo Ulloa led an expedition 8,000 meters under the sea to an area…

Chile creates national park to save glaciers

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) - Chile said Saturday it is creating a vast national park to protect hundreds of glaciers that…

Melting glaciers, fast-disappering gauge of climate change

by Pablo COZZAGLIO / Alberto PEÑA Agence France-Presse AYSEN, Chile (AFP) - A crack widens in the San Rafael glacier…

Rescued condors spread wings in Chilean Andes

by Pablo COZZAGLIO / Alberto PEÑA Agence France-Presse PARQUE NACIONAL PATAGONIA, Chile (AFP) - Pumalin and Liquine, two juvenile condors…

Chile court freezes multi-million dollar lithium deal

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) - A Chilean appeals court on Friday suspended a million-dollar state lithium tender issued two days earlier…

Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19

by Paulina ABRAMOVICH Agence France-Presse BUIN, Chile (AFP) - Bengal tiger Charly and Bornean orangutan Sandai, both members of endangered…

Chilean scientists study climate change at ‘end of the world’

Chilean scientists studying organisms in one of the most remote places on Earth are urging regional leaders to step up…

Total solar eclipse plunges Antarctica into darkness

A total solar eclipse plunged Antarctica from summer into darkness early Saturday in a rare astronomical spectacle witnessed by a…

Chile approves Covid shots for childen aged 3 and up

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) -- Chile on Thursday announced it would start vaccinating children aged three and up against the coronavirus,…

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