Sources: BBC
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-meter (28 ft) telescope. 2025-06-23
The death toll from major wildfires in Valparaíso, Chile, increases to at least 112 people, with between 3,000 and 6,000 houses damaged in the fires. 2024-02-4
Chile detects its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a 53-year-old man. 2023-03-29
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Mendoza Province, Argentina, near the border with Chile at 00:17 ART. No casualties are reported but minimal damage to buildings is reported. 2021-11-3
Gold Fields Ltd, a South African mining company, has hired an investment bank, RBC Capital Markets, to help it sell 30% of its gold project in northern Chile. 2020-01-21
After a week of fare-dodging protests in the Santiago Metro, thousands of protestors clash with police in different places across Santiago, Chile. Subway service is suspended in the entire city. Protests started after a price hike in the most expensive subway system in Latin America. 2019-10-18
All 34 Roman Catholic bishops in Chile offer to resign after Pope Francis accused them of destroying evidence of sexual crimes. 2018-05-18
The governments of Chile and Argentina issue volcanic activity alerts in areas close to the Copahue volcano after it started spewing ash. 2012-12-23
Sixty-one schools in Chile's capital Santiago are to be investigated for possible child sex abuse. 2012-07-21
Parcel bombs explode at the Mexican, Russian and Swiss embassies in Greece. Similar packages were sent or addressed to the embassies of Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany and the Netherlands over the past two days. 2010-11-2