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Magnitude-6.8 earthquake shakes northern Chile
A magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook offices, toppled supermarket shelves and broke windows on Wednesday in north-central Chile, where people fled some ...
Chavez starting more medical treatment in Cuba
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defeated a respiratory infection and has begun additional medical treatment in Cuba after struggling with ...
Europe's emigrants face red tape in Latin America
Geologist David Rodriguez and actress Cristina Pascual, two of the nearly six million Spaniards left jobless in the European recession, fled to Latin ...
UN deputy chief urges action on water rights
Most of the world's urgent problems boil down to water and sanitation, and global leaders must act to reduce child mortality and urban poverty, the ...
Chile aims to focus summit on its brighter side
European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, ...
Academy shows love for 'Amour' with 5 Oscar nods
Hollywood's movie elite sent their love to "Amour" on Thursday, giving director Michael Haneke's searing portrait of old age five Academy Award ...
From Ethiopia to Chile: Day 1 of a 7-year walk
On the eve of an unimaginably long walk — one that starts in Africa, winds through the Middle East, across Asia, hops over to Alaska, goes down the ...
Chile: Couple dies defending home amid protests
An elderly couple whose family's vast landholdings have long been targeted by Mapuche Indians in southern Chile were killed in an arson attack early ...
Chile charges 8 people in singer's killing
Eight former army lieutenants have been charged in the killing of communist singer and songwriter Victor Jara almost four decades ago. Appellate Court ...
Chilean street dogs are protesters' best friends
They don't have demands, but they're loyal to the cause and are always on the front lines of the fight. They run with protesters, lap up shots from ...
Correction: Peru Quake Unreadiness Story
In a story that moved Dec. 9 and 23 about earthquake readiness in Lima, Peru, The Associated Press incorrectly listed the year and the magnitude of ...
Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot ...
Chile apologizes to lesbian denied custody of kids
Chile's government has apologized to a lesbian judge who was denied custody of her three daughters because she is gay. The apology was issued Friday ...
IMF's Lagarde praises Euro deal on bank oversight
The head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday praised a deal inked by European Union governments to create a single supervisor for their ...
Chilean town shaken by reminders of deadly quake
One jolt hit in the middle of the night. Another caught fishermen at a nearby beach. Then the ground shook at supper. And then again, and again: More ...
Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant dies
Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a ...
Booze, smokes on agenda for quirky gov't group
Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed ...
Chilean court fines motel for discrimination
A court in Chile has slapped a fine on a motel that banned entry to a gay couple in the first ruling associated with a new-antidiscrimination law.
Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...
Codelco reports higher Jan-Sept profit
Chile's state-owned mining company Codelco said Thursday its January-September profits rose 27 percent over the same period last year, boosted by the ...
5.9-magnitude quake strikes Chile
A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing office buildings in the capital to sway for almost a minute but ...
Solar cars roll across Earth's driest desert
The second annual Solar Challenge has begun in Chile's Atacama desert, where 15 solar-powered cars rolled out of an old salt mine Thursday.
Chile searches for 3 missing European tourists
Three days of searching has found no trace of three European tourists who went missing while hiking at one of this South American nation's most active ...
Spanish judge indicts 7 for UN diplomat's slaying
Six Chileans and an American accused of the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of a Spanish U.N. official in Chile were indicted Tuesday by a Spanish ...