It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a table.

Google says it will halt plans to develop a major $200 million data center in Chile to address environmental concerns.

A Chilean-American raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the state of Chile alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.

A Chilean judge has ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire that caused 137 deaths and made 16,000 people homeless in February.

Alexander Zverev put on a serving clinic in a 6-4, 7-5 win over 24th-ranked Nicolas Jarry to claim his second Italian Open title and earn his biggest trophy since tearing his ankle apart two years ago.

Officials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand.

Officials say at least 50 people have been injured by what they described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand.

Romina Cortés couldn’t pronounce her sister’s last name.

Chilean prosecutors have released more details about the death of former President Sebastian Piñera.

The death toll from wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days has increased to 131.

Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 123 people in densely populated areas over the past three days.

Firefighters are wrestling with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile, as officials impose new curfews in the cities most heavily affected by the blazes.

Leftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

The opening ceremony of Chile’s first Pan American Games was not only a celebration of athletes, Indigenous peoples and poetry, but laid bare the politically divided country’s scars from the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 until 1990.

Television crews at the Pan American Games had equipment stolen this week from the compound of the National Stadium, the site of Friday’s opening ceremony, heightening concerns about crime at the tournament hosting over 6,800 athletes.

In the middle of the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, the colors and patterns of Aymara textiles are inspired by the land that is considered sacred.

A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America.

The archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity gives an account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who took power after a military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende 50 years ago.

A 42-year-old Virginia man got to embrace his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Valdivia, Chile.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in Chile that it is imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on its involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup.

European Union and Latin American leaders have concluded a summit that was supposed to be a love-in after eight years of separation with a second full day of aggravation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.

Chile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter.

A migration crisis at the border between Chile and Peru is intensifying, with hundreds of people stranded, unable to cross into Peru in an effort to return to their home country of Venezuela.

The Chilean government’s newly announced plan to have the state take a majority stake in the lithium industry has disconcerted business leaders.

Researchers have found a new moai statue in a dry lake on the Chilean island of Rapa Nui, joining the approximately 1,000 other iconic monolithic sculptures on what is internationally known as Easter Island.

Chile extended an emergency declaration to yet another region on Saturday as firefighters continued to struggle to control dozens of raging wildfires that have claimed at least 22 lives in the midst of a scorching heat wave that has broken records.

Rapa Nui, the Chilean territory widely known as Easter Island, is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.

Chile is going to try again to replace its constititution, which was imposed by a military dictatorship four decades ago.

A daunting canoe voyage — covering almost 500 kilometers, or about 300 miles across a stretch of the Pacific Ocean — is underway.

The United Nations’ highest court has found little to rule on in a long-running dispute over a small river which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors had mostly resolved their conflict during the 6-year proceedings.

Women are leading negotiations about the thorniest topic in the United Nations climate talks in Egypt.

Chile has lost its appeal to replace Ecuador at the World Cup in Qatar but the verdict by FIFA will likely lead the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

From its “intercultural delivery room" to protocols for doctors to approve herbal treatments from trusted traditional healers, the largest public hospital in Chile’s southern city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous medicine.

For the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group and more than 10 percent of its population, a pristine river like the Truful Truful, flowing from a lava field under an Andean volcano, is the home of a spiritual force to revere, not a natural resource to exploit.

Chile holds itself out as a global leader on climate change.

A Chilean court has increased the prison sentence for six former soldiers convicted in the 1973 kidnapping, torture and murder of folk singer Víctor Jara, as well as that of a government official.

A conservative lawmaker with a history of defending Chile’s military dictatorship and a former student protest leader are headed to a polarizing presidential runoff after failing to garner enough votes to win the country’s election outright.

Two onetime outsiders hailing from opposite extremes of the political spectrum have received the most votes in Chile’s presidential election but have failed to garner enough support for an outright win, setting up what’s likely to be polarizing runoff in the region’s most advanced economy.

Chileans are voting for president Sunday with a mix of dread, optimism and above all uncertainty about what lies ahead after a wave of social and political unrest that includes the current effort to rewrite the constitution.

The Chilean Senate has rejected an opposition-initiated impeachment process to remove President Sebastián Piñera over allegations that he favored the sale of a family property that hinged on the government not declaring the land a nature reserve.

Beijing says it will block Taiwan's application to join an 11-member Pacific Rim trade grouping.

As U.S. authorities moved out the last of the more than 14,000 migrants who gathered beside a border bridge in Del Rio, thousands of other Haitians en route between the border and South America are coming to the realization that a window of time has closed.

China has applied to join an 11-nation Asia-Pacific free trade group in an effort to increase its influence over international policies.

Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government is slashing energy taxes and imposing a temporary windfall tax on the gains of energy companies in an attempt to drive down household electricity bills, which have surged to record highs and triggered an outcry.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is convening an urgent meeting of a committee that oversees efforts to fight hate crime after hooded attackers beat a 20-year-old man in Madrid and used a knife to carve a profanity on one of his buttocks.

Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal that shook the Catholic Church in Chile and who was eventually defrocked by the pope, has died.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says COVID-19 vaccines would be made available at key airports in the state starting June 1.

Constitutions are pretty formulaic,” said the professor, David Law of the University of Hong Kong. A more inclusive country and the erasure of a much-amended relic of military rule, the 1980 constitution. Law, the Hong Kong professor, said South Africa's constitution “in particular is pushed as an example for every Global South/transitional/developing country out there. Not so clear.″Approved after the 1994 end of white racist rule, the South African constitution drew from codes in Germany, Canada, India, Namibia and elsewhere. “This is not a good analogy, but ask yourself how much constraint the U.S. Constitution would have imposed on Trump if Trump had final say over the meaning of the Constitution," Law said.

A Mapuche Indigenous family uses special glasses to try and observe a total solar eclipse in Carahue, La Araucania, Chile, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The total eclipse was not visible from Carahue because of an overcast sky. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)CARAHUE – Thousands of people gathered in the Chilean region of La Araucanía on Monday to witness a solar eclipse, rejoicing in the rare experience even though visibility was limited because of cloudy skies. Experts said the solar eclipse was partly visible in several other Latin American countries as well as parts of Africa and areas of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The next total solar eclipse in Chile is expected to occur in 28 years.

Lebanese and Chilean rescuers search in the rubble of a collapsed building after getting signals there may be a survivor, early Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)BEIRUT Rescue workers resumed search operations early Friday in a building that collapsed last month in Beiruts deadly blast in hopes of finding a survivor under the rubble after a pulsing signal was detected. Search operations first began Thursday afternoon after a sniffer dog belonging to a Chilean search and rescue team detected something as the team was going through the neighborhood of Gemmayzeh and rushed toward the rubble. The army issued a statement Friday saying the Chilean team stopped work half an hour before midnight for fears that a wall might collapse, endangering them. On Friday morning, rescue workers were slowly removing debris with their hands and shovels digging a hole in the building.

Chilean and Lebanese rescuers search in the rubble of a building that was collapsed in last month's massive explosion, after getting signals there may be a survivor under the rubble, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. Hopes were raised after the dog of a Chilean search and rescue team touring Gemmayzeh street, one of the hardest-hit in Beirut, ran toward the collapsed building. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there may be a survivor still buried there. The origin of the pulsing signal was not immediately known but it set off a frantic search and raised new hope. So far, authorities have detained 25 people over last month's explosion, most of them port and customs officials.

He is charged in France with premeditated murder of Kurosaki whose body was never found. (Chile's Investigative Police via AP)PARIS A Chilean man accused of murdering a Japanese student in France nearly four years ago is expected to arrive at a Paris airport Friday morning after being extradited. He is charged in France with premeditated murder in the alleged 2016 slaying of Narumi Kurosaki, 21. Kurosaki disappeared in the early hours of Dec. 5, 2016, from her apartment in France. During court proceedings in Chile, Zepeda acknowledged that he had visited Kurosaki at her apartment on the night she disappeared, even though their romantic relationship had ended.

Despite the reshuffle, thousands of protesters returned to the streets of the Chilean capital. SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera replaced his Cabinet Monday following days of violent protests that have paralyzed the country, seen the military return to the streets, and led to the deaths of at least 20 people. The move comes two days after the President asked all of his ministers to resign. Despite the reshuffle, thousands of protesters returned to the streets of the Chilean capital Monday, calling for Pinera's resignation and clashing with security forces in violent street battles. On Monday, protesters held a vigil for those who have died during the unrest.

Crowds swelled in downtown Santiago for a sixth straight day, amid calls by trade union organizations for a general strike. A third person was killed Wednesday after being attacked by Chilean police in Santiago, Interior Undersecretary Rodrigo Ubilla told reporters. In response, the government extended a curfew for the Santiago metropolitan region for a fifth consecutive day. "President Pinera should make clear to Chilean security forces that they need to respect human rights and ensure that agents implicated in abuses are promptly and impartially investigated." Chile is one of Latin America's wealthiest countries, but it also has one of highest levels of income inequality in the world.

Copyright 2019 CNNSANTIAGO, Chile - Broken glass and bricks littered streets in Santiago after more violent protests Monday, prompting Chile's government to extend a curfew in the capital for a third straight day. Chile is one of Latin America's wealthiest countries, but it also has one of highest levels of income inequality in the world. Pinera announced the suspension of the price hike on Saturday but it did little to quell the unrest. Military on the streetsThe extended curfew, which was first introduced on Saturday, began at 8 p.m. local time (7 p.m. But in what would be a blow to Chile, the unrest could threaten the summit and a highly-anticipated trade meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Xinping.

Metaforico via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Three people have died in a supermarket fire as angry protests in Chile entered their seventh day, the mayor of capital city Santiago said on Sunday. Karla Rubilar said authorities "are collecting more details" on the deaths -- the first since demonstrations broke out nearly a week ago over a hike in public transport costs. The unrest has forced Chile's military to issue a curfew for the entire Santiago metropolitan region until 7:00 a.m. local time (6:00 a.m. Chilean President Sebastian Piera announced Saturday that ministers will suspend the plan, after declaring a state of emergency the previous day. Piera had earlier condemned the violence and looting, saying that because of currency exchange fluctuations, it was necessary to raise the price of public transport.

President of Chile Sebastian Pinera Echenique speaks at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations on September 23, 2019 in New York City. While the United States will not be participating, China and about 70 other countries are expected(CNN) - Chilean President Sebastin Piera declared a state of emergency in a televised address to the nation on Friday after days of violent protests in the country's capital. "The objective of this state of emergency is very simple, but very profound," Piera said, "it's to ensure public order, bring peace to Santiago and protect public and private property." Piera condemned this week's violence and looting, saying that because of currency exchange fluctuations, it was necessary to raise the price of public transport. The President said that under special state security laws, those who caused the damage across the city would be prosecuted, the news agency added.

Approximately 40,000 liters of diesel oil was spilled into the sea on the Chilean side of Patagonia region on Saturday. (CNN) - The Chilean Navy has been deployed after 40,000 liters of diesel were spilled into the sea near a remote island on the country's southern coast. The oil spill occurred on Saturday off Guarello Island on the Chilean side of Patagonia, the pristine southernmost region making up the tip of both Argentina and Chile. Chilean mining company CAP, which mines on the island, reported the incident to the navy. The cause of the spill was not immediately clear, and the Chilean Navy has launched an investigation.

(CNN) - The man who drew the ire of animal lovers after he was accused of causing the death of Pinky, a beloved Chilean flamingo at a Florida theme park, has died. Joseph Anthony Corrao, 48, was struck by a pickup as he crossed a road in Orlando, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The truck driver has not been cited, though authorities are investigating the incident. Corrao was scheduled to go to trial in August on felony animal cruelty charges, according to court records. In 2016, Corrao was visiting Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay with his family when he grabbed Pinky and threw her to the ground, nearly ripping one foot off, witnesses told police.

2010: The 2010 Copiap mining accident in Copiap, Chile, comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue. Four days earlier, a drill had reached the chamber about 2,300 feet underground holding the trapped miners, beginning the final stages of a rescue operation that eventually lowered one-man rescue capsules down the bore hole in a process that took nearly 24 hours. Here, Luis Urza, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the 33 to rescued, celebrates with Chilean President Sebastin Piera. Hide Caption