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

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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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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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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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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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Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera says he will do everything necessary to discover why a teenager was shot and killed during anti-government protests last week.

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Mr. Ruiz, a Chilean director, delighted in the twisting and turning plots of his movies.

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Raúl Ruiz, Prolific Director of Cryptic Films, Dies at 70

SANTIAGO, Chile — In Latin America’s most economically stable country , it was yet another protest. Thousands of students chanted slogans, banged drums and snarled traffic Thursday, as the media and political establishment intensely watched. And the center-right government of President Sebastián Piñera once more looked powerless to curtail the anger in the streets. The country, seen as a model of progress since dictator Augusto Pinochet’s iron grip slipped 21 years ago, continues to be buffeted by the most serious and sustained protests in a generation of democracy. That has raised an uncomfortable question: Why do so many Chileans — tens of thousands in the streets, millions more who say they support the protesters — believe that their country has failed to address widespread needs, beginning with an education system that even the government acknowledges has flaws. Read full article > >

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Education protests shake Chile’s government

Protesters clash with riot police in the Chilean capital, Santiago as thousands of students march to demand changes to the education system.

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New Zealand aftershocks, Chile’s Caulle volcano erupts, a handmade electric vehicle and more news and features from around the world. Read full article > >

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Travel chaos spreads to Western Australia with flights into and out of Perth cancelled because of ash from the volcanic eruption in Chile.

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