Chile News

Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others.

Health Minister Jaime Manalich blames wildfires in the southern Bio Bio and Araucania regions for driving rats from their normal habitat into places where people live.

Matt Bishop recently conducted an interview with MOTORHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell on the band's tour bus during Gigantour 2012.

Canamex Resources Corp. is pleased to report anomalous gold with values ranging up to 647 ppb Au in the stream sediment samples and pan concentrates from its Aranka North gold exploration project in Guyana, South America.

Atacama Pacific Gold Corporation is pleased to report the first drill assay results from the 42,000-metre, Phase III drill program at its Cerro Maricunga Gold Project, located 140 kilometres northeast of Copiapo, Chile.

The world's No.1 copper producer, Chilean state giant Codelco, will struggle this year to match record 2011 copper output of 1.735 million tonnes, CEO Diego Hernandez said in the El Mercurio newspaper's Sunday edition.

Mark and Jodee Loury of Fort Collins happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Brenna, to Francisco Gaete, son of Jose Manuel and Michelina Gaete of Santiago, Chile.

Santiago carries reminders of a troubled past, but Simone Kane discovers that art and architecture are much in evidence too Look at the map: Chile is a very long, thin country - from north to south it stretches further than the distance from London to Baghdad.

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A population of only 17mn also places downwards pressure on our forecasts. On the plus side, the food and drink market is still seen as relatively fragmented, leaving opportunities for companies to come in and be successful.

ROME, FEB. 3, 2012 .- She is known by the nuns of her congregation as Sister Sweetness, and an inexplicable cure attributed to her intercession has opened the way for her beatification.

Local prosecutor Lelia Vasquez says 34-year-old bicycle trekker Maximiliano Serain, who had pitched his tent a few meters from the perimeter fence of the El Pato airbase on Peru's northern coast, turned out to be the artist he claimed to be.

The government hopes the improved laws - which extend tax relief to include on-site R&D - will push the private sector contribution to overall investment in R&D from 44 to 60 per cent by 2014.

According to BBC News, the man, who was caught in the Patagonian town of Cochrane , was likely headed for the capital Santiago.

In Calgary, maybe it's because one may find it hard to believe the terrible bicycle infrastructure and plague-like urban sprawl were planned by rational human beings.

LIMA, Peru - A piece of advice for Chilean visitors to Peru: It's best not to pitch your tent next to a military base, especially if you're carrying a camera.

For over 35 years, Motorhead, the heaviest hard rock trio ever, has never slowed down.

London copper slipped on Thursday as gains in the past month kept Chinese buyers at bay and the euro zone debt crisis continued to weigh on sentiment, but upbeat global manufacturing data is expected to keep a floor under prices.

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My interest in presidential politics began in elementary school when my third-grade teacher in Liberty Boro, Pa., asked me to run the Adlai Stevenson campaign in a mock school election.