NEW DELHI – Former Indian prime minister and statesman, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, passed away on Thursday following prolonged illness. He was 93. He breathed his last a little after 5pm at New Delhi’s All India […]
SANTIAGO – The LATAM Airlines has launched flights from Peru’s seventh biggest city in terms of population, Cusco to the Chilean capital, Santiago. The region’s largest airlines will perform three weekly flights on the 2,208-kilometre […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Supreme Court has sentenced 24 former police agents to prison for the disappearance of a man who was arrested during the “dirty war” crackdown on leftists under dictator General Augusto Pinochet. The […]
SANTIAGO – A fire at a private nursing home in southern Chile has claimed the lives of 10 elderly women. The fire broke out Tuesday between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. local time at the Santa […]
QUITO – A bus carrying travelers from Colombia and Venezuela crashed in Ecuador on Tuesday, killing 24 people and injuring 22 others, according to the Quito Fire Department. The bus was traveling to Quito when […]
LIMA – At least seven people died and more than 50 sustained injuries on Saturday when a bus fell into a ravine in the central Peruvian region of Huanuco, according to Peru’s National Emergency Operations […]
SANTIAGO – Authorities raided the office of the bishop to the armed services on Thursday as part of investigations into accusations that senior Roman Catholic Church officials covered up claims of sexual abuse by clergymen […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s exports of lithium carbonate reached US$85 million in July, more than double that of the same month the previous year, as demand and prices for the key component in electric vehicle batteries […]
SANTIAGO – The United Nations General Assembly approved on Friday the appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as the world body’s new human rights chief. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Bachelet […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday unveiled a bill that would enable the children of working parents to have free access to childcare centers or nurseries. “Making work life and family life compatible […]
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