SANTIAGO – Activists from different organizations marched to demonstrate against violence against women this Friday at 7:00 p.m. in Plaza Italia to then tour the Alameda de Santiago and finish the tour near Los Héroes. […]
MEXCIO CITY – The Mexican government has created a large marine reserve around a group of islands home to hundreds of species including rays, whales and sea turtles. Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto designated on […]
BARCELONA – Argentina’s star footballer Lionel Messi has signed a new contract with Barcelona that could keep him at Camp Nou until 2021, the club announced on Saturday. The contract contains a buyout clause worth […]
ROME – Brazilian footballer Robson de Souza, more commonly known as Robinho, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013. An […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chile inaugurated its new National Electric System after it merged the Central Interconnected Systems (SIC) and the Northern Interconnected System Grid (SING). The new system, Sistema Eléctrico Nacional in Spanish, serves […]
SANTIAGO – The first of two containers of Chinese pears is already in Chile and the second due to arrive in the first week of December. These are three varieties of high quality pears, which […]
SANTIAGO – Workers at Chile’s Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, ended a 24-hour strike on Friday but could put down their tools again next week over the company’s planned layoffs, the union said. Their […]
CAIRO – Militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled the building, killing at least 235 people and wounding […]
SANTIAGO – President Michelle Bachelet announced Thursday that the Chilean Government will allocate an investment of 47 billion pesos (just over US$74 million) for the construction of a new airport for Easter Island, which could […]
SANTIAGO – Workers at Chile’s Escondida copper mine, the world’s largest, began Thursday a 24-hour strike to protest recent layoffs affecting about 3% of the operation’s workforce. On Wednesday, majority owner and operator BHP (ASX, […]
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