News: Chile

We have started to collect the most important news related to Chile in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Chile – overview

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• December 15th 2009 – October 6th 2009
• September 2nd 2009 – March 19th 2009
• March 12th 2009 – July 11th 2008
• July 9th 2008 – April 17th 2008
• March 24th 2008 – November 14th 2007
• November 10th 2007 – September 12th 2007
• September 1st 2007 – June 21st 2007
• June 20th 2007 – January 23rd 2007
• January 3rd 2007 – November 27th 2006
• November 25th 2006 – August 30th 2006
• August 23rd 2006 – July 15th 2006
• July 14th 2006 – May 24th 2006
• May 24th 2006 – January 28th 2006
• January 28th 2006 – December 27th 2005
• December 26th 2005 – November 15th 2005

Chile: news

Key ministers replaced in Chile

Thursday, March 12th 2009, 17:39

Chile's foreign and defence ministers are replaced, President Bachelet announces, ahead of presidential elections later this year.
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Broken-legged smuggler wore cast made of cocaine

Friday, March 6th 2009, 13:27
related countries: Spain

A Chilean man is arrested after his broken leg is found to be clad in a cast made from cocaine, Spanish police say.
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Priceless beauty

Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 12:52

Commerce and conservation join forces in Chile
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Volcano erupts in southern Chile

Friday, February 20th 2009, 1:32
related places: Chaiten

Chile evacuates 150 people who had returned to the southern town of Chaiten after it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption last year.
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Chile head in landmark Cuba trip

Thursday, February 12th 2009, 7:50
related countries: Cuba

President Michelle Bachelet makes the first visit to Cuba by a Chilean leader in almost four decades. .
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Pinochet-era 'disappeared' found

Tuesday, December 30th 2008, 10:09

Four cases of people listed as "missing" during General Pinochet's military rule in Chile are now known to be false.
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Chile minister admits HIV failure

Thursday, November 13th 2008, 17:59

Chile's public health service may have failed to tell more than 500 people they are HIV-positive, a government minister admits.
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Chile HIV error minister resigns

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 2:11

The Chilean health minister resigns after a hospital fails to tell dozens of patients that they have HIV.
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Chile jails death squad officers

Thursday, October 16th 2008, 3:28

Chile jails five retired senior military officers over the killing of dozens of government opponents under military rule.
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Flood emergency declared in Chile

Thursday, September 4th 2008, 9:41

An emergency is declared in parts of southern Chile after torrential rains cause severe flooding and leave thousands stranded.
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Pinochet daughter bids for office

Tuesday, July 29th 2008, 9:30

The eldest daughter of Chile's late leader Gen Augusto Pinochet says she will run as a local councillor in October's elections.
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SS doctor 'still alive in Chile'

Tuesday, July 15th 2008, 2:06
related countries: United States

Former Nazi doctor Aribert Heim is still likely to be alive in Chile, says Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff at the end of a Latin American visit.
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Chilean 'protest stripper' arrested outside presidential palace

Friday, July 11th 2008, 0:28
related places: Santiago

A stripper in Chile is arrested attempting to remove her clothes outside the presidential palace in the capital, Santiago.
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