SANTIAGO – For the fourth consecutive year, Chile has scored a decline in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2017, according to ranking presented by the NGO Transparency International (TI), dropping two posts compared to 2016. […]
TEHRAN – Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed condolences over the Iranian plane crash that claimed the lives of 66 people. The ministry sent a message of condolences to the Embassy of the Islamic […]
SANTIAGO – Chile is among eight countries whose adherence to women’s rights is being reviewed from this week by the United Nations. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is meeting in […]
SANTIAGO – The Vatican’s top abuse investigator, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, has been taken to hospital shortly after his arrival in Chile to investigate a controversial bishop, the country’s worst priestly predator, the Catholic Church announced […]
LIMA – A double-deck bus veered off the Panamerican Highway and tumbled about 200 meters (650 feet) down a cliff in southern Peru on Wednesday, killing at least 44 people. The death toll is likely […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s president-elect Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday announced the names of 35 undersecretaries ahead of its inauguration next month. “In 19 more days the government that you chose begins and I know that you […]
PYEONGCHANG – French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis held things together through a wardrobe malfunction and finished second in the short program at Olympic Winter Games 2018 in South Korea . Ahead of […]
LIMA – A Peruvian court ordered former president Alberto Fujimori on Monday to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers, arguing that he lacks immunity despite a recent pardon for a different crime. […]
BRASILIA – Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced the creation of a public security ministry after giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer came to the city to meet […]
CARACAS – Venezuela has launched the “world’s first sovereign cryptocurrency”, El Petro, in an attempt to bypass tough economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government. The oil-backed “Petro” is intended to bolster the country’s crumbling […]
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