A Peruvian car is destroyed and its driver is killed by a landmine in northern Chile after crossing the border illegally.

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Chile mine destroys Peruvian car

Chilean officials are asking fishermen to help save birds caught in nets after thousands of dead fowl appeared along the coast.

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2,300 birds found dead on Chile beaches

Chilean students take part in fresh protests for education reform, saying measures proposed by President Sebastian Pinera do not go far enough.

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Chile students in fresh protests

Students protesting for free quality education have clashed with police in Santiago, Chile.

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VIDEO: Students clash with police in Chile

The Supreme Court in Chile has approved a plan to build a hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, dismissing concerns by environmentalists.

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Chile court gives dam green light

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

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7.2-magnitude quake hits central Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chile is backing off a controversial plan to remove the word “dictatorship” from school textbooks in reference to the military government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. President Sebastian Pinera’s new Education Minister Harald Beyer sparked a political uproar when he discussed the plan Wednesday, which was publicized in a local newspaper. He suggested grade-school students be taught a more “general” term by calling the 1973-1990 rule of Pinochet a “military regime.” Read full article > >

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One man is killed as dozens of wildfires spread through southern and central parts of Chile during a heat wave.

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Deadly Chile forest fires spread

Chilean authorities arrest an Israeli tourist on suspicion of negligently causing a massive forest fire in the country’s south.

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Chile detains tourist over fire

The Chilean government declares the Torres del Paine National Park a disaster area as firefighters struggle to control a huge blaze.

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Chile nature park ravaged by fire

Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley are to leave ITV1′s breakfast show Daybreak, which has suffered poor ratings since its launch, it is confirmed.

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Breakfast pair to leave Daybreak

Kyaw Win was 22 years old when he first glimpsed the world outside Burma. It was 1975, and he’d traveled to his country’s eastern border, where short bridges cross a river from the Burmese town of Tachilek to Mae Sai in Thailand. “The bridges, I quite remember, are not more than 100 or 200 feet, but life there was totally different,” Kyaw Win recalls. Read full article > >

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After seeking U.S. asylum, Kyaw Win describes former life as Burmese diplomat

Humans have mined resources from the remote and rocky coast of Peru and Chile for more than a century and a half, gathering the guano deposits of seabirds for fertilizer and gunpowder. Those seabirds flourished on anchoveta in the coastal waters, while Peruvians in the highlands ate the same fish as dried snacks. Read full article > >

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Population growth taxing planet’s resources

A year after the globally televised rescue of 33 miners in Chile, most are unemployed, many are poorer than before and some are experiencing post-traumatic stress.

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Chile’s Rescued Miners Face Major Struggles a Year Later

Astronomers in Chile have been building the world’s most powerful telescope high up in the Atacama desert.

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VIDEO: Building a high altitude telescope