Brazil becomes fifth highest country in number of COVID-19 deaths
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has reached 27,944 coronavirus deaths, official figures showed Saturday, surpassing the toll of hard-hit Spain and making it the country…
IMF approves US$23.93 billion credit line for Chile
SANTIAGO – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved a two-year $24 billion for Chile under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) as the South…
Neighbourhood Tales to live-stream all performances from Primrose Hill and surrounding areas
• Mimi Fuenzalida and team have been capturing different types of performances from local community members to raise funds for charity • All performances, along…
Trump’s social media censorship executive order challenged by legal experts
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump’s attempt to curb what he says is social media censorship is a political gambit and will not change the…
Turning the Corner Just in Time
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff As 1,421 people violated curfew and quarantine laws in the last 24 hours in Chile, the number of worldwide active…
Chile to transfer lockdown violators to sanitary residences, ‘even with public force’
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Health Minister Jaime Mañalich on Friday complained that “the monitoring of quarantine measures is not being satisfactory” in the country, adding that…
Chile reaches new peak of deaths from coronavirus
SANTIAGO – Chile has extended the quarantine measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19 in the capital Santiago and the metropolitan area for another week…
COVID-9: Chile extends lockdown in 41 communes for another week
SANTIAGO – The quarantine measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19 in Chile have been extended for another week as the total number of coronavirus…
Climate change turning Antarctica “green”
LONDON – Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge….
Black Death and Coronavirus: a brief general comparison
Gonzalo Díaz Ponce The Black Death (or Bubonic plague) devastated Europe between 1347 and 1351, and it killed more lives than any war or other…