CARACAS – Clashes with police continued in parts of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas Saturday on the eve of a controversial election that has deepened the political crisis gripping the South American nation. Opponents of […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean start-up JetSMART has started its commercial service while planning to fly to 10 domestic destinations in the coming months. The Santiago-based low-cost carrier operated its first revenue flight, from Santiago to Calama […]
SANTIAGO – The 480m² big mural surrounding the museum Bellas Artes, located in the center of Santiago, has been finished in the course of an urban art project. During renovation work of the museum’s façade, […]
SANTIAGO – The union representing workers at Lider, Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s main supermarket chain in Chile, have voted to go on strike for higher pay. “We are awaiting the final result from the work directorate, […]
SANTIAGO – Australis Cruise Lines, known for its expedition cruises in remote and exotic southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, has been recognised by the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine as one of the […]
SANTIAGO – An evangelical church was burned to the ground this week in southern Araucanía region that the Mapuche indigenous group claims as its ancestral territory, authorities said. The arson attack happened late Tuesday in […]
LA PAZ – A University of Michigan ecologist and his colleagues have discovered three more frog species in the Peruvian Andes, raising to five the total number of new frog species the group has found […]
PARIS – A French woman wanted in Chile for the alleged assassination of a senator under the Pinochet dictatorship arrived in Paris last night after spending over a year in an Indian jail awaiting extradition. […]
ISLAMABAD – Nawaz Sharif has resigned as prime minister of Pakistan following a decision by the country’s Supreme Court to disqualify him from office. ‘He is disqualified as a member of the parliament so he […]
CARACAS – Colombia’s Avianca Holdings SA will suspend flights to Venezuela next month, joining other major carriers that have cut off access to the South American nation engulfed in violent political protests and economic chaos. […]
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