Fri Feb 4, 2011 6:49 PM EST
Marcelo Bielsa resigned Friday as Chile's soccer coach, ending a three-month saga over his future.
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Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:53 PM EDT
A United Airlines pilot was briefly detained at the international airport in Rio de Janeiro after lowering his pants during a security screening, police said Saturday.
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Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:00 PM EDT
She is a 43-year-old, divorced mother of two teenage boys who wants to believe she can still experience true love.
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Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:28 PM EDT
Britain's prime minister and the president of Latin America's largest nation made energetic appeals for stricter oversight of the global financial systems at a warm-up to the G20 meeting in London.
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Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:54 PM EST
Admirers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet inaugurated a museum in his honor on Friday, a move they hope will burnish the image of a man reviled by much of the world.
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:45 PM EST
The reappearance of a man who was officially dead has shaken and outraged some in Chile, a nation that mourns 1,196 other political prisoners who vanished in the hands of a military dictatorship.
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Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:09 AM EDT
South American presidents gathering in Chile on Monday will try to find a peaceful solution to a political crisis in Bolivia that has seen more than a dozen people killed in clashes between supporters and foes of President Evo Morales.
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Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:07 PM EDT
The International Whaling Commission ended its annual conference on Friday, leaving all the tough work on expanding or restricting whale hunting still ahead of it.
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:21 AM EDT
Nine survivors of a plane crash in Chile's frigid southern forests said they survived a four-day wait for rescue by huddling close together for warmth, sheltering inside the wreckage and sharing what food they had.
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Tue May 27, 2008 1:00 PM EDT
First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
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Sat May 10, 2008 5:50 PM EDT
Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Chile, an animal welfare group said Saturday.
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Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:36 PM EST
The sister of an American mathematician who vanished in Chile said Tuesday she's frustrated by stalled efforts to find out what happened to him under the former military dictatorship.
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Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:08 AM EST
Chile on Wednesday summoned home its ambassador to Peru for consultations amid a growing dispute over the countries' maritime boundary and lucrative fishing grounds.
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Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:46 PM EST
The judge handling the embezzlement trials of relatives and aides of the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet submitted his resignation from the case on Monday after defense lawyers accused him of bias against the former dictator.
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Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:20 PM EST
President Hugo Chavez lashed back at Spain's king Sunday for telling him to "shut up" during a summit, suggesting the monarch knew in advance of a 2002 coup that briefly ousted the Venezuelan leader from power.
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Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:05 PM EST
The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange that soured the end of a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
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Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:33 PM EST
The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
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Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:19 PM EDT
A Chilean appeals court on Friday dropped corruption charges against former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's widow and four of his children, who had been accused of misuse of state funds related to multimillion-dollar overseas bank accounts.
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Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:17 AM EDT
Michelle Bachelet has a problem other presidents would love: What to do with billions of dollars overflowing the government's coffers.
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Tue Jul 3, 2007 2:58 PM EDT
Scientists on Tuesday blamed global warming for the disappearance of a glacial lake in remote southern Chile that faded away in just two months, leaving just a crater behind.
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Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:03 PM EDT
Alberto Fujimori speaks of returning to the presidency in Peru and he's running for Senate in Japan. But his hopes of staying out of prison depend on a court in Chile.
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Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:21 PM EDT
Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing high school students who repeatedly blocked traffic on Santiago's main avenue on Thursday.
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Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:52 PM EDT
Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.
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Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:55 AM EDT
President Michelle Bachelet swore in six new Cabinet ministers Tuesday in a shake-up prompted by a public transportation debacle that has damaged her popularity.
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Fri Mar 9, 2007 3:31 AM EST
One year into her mandate, Chile's first woman president has legislated the right to breast-feed in the workplace, offered greater protection against domestic violence, cracked down on alimony-dodgers and placed more women in positions of power.
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