Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday skirted questions about comments by President Donald Trump voicing sympathy for Charlottesville protesters, but says he stands with the president nonetheless. Pence wouldn't say Wednesday whether he agrees with Trump that there were "fine people" among the white supremacists, ...
Japan's swelling ranks of working women have grape growers 10,000 miles away cheering. Chilean vintners have emerged as the biggest beneficiary of Japan's booming wine market. Their low-priced, fruit-driven product has found a receptive niche among women in their 40s and 50s, who have helped ...
Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father. The cubs' mother, Masai, became pregnant after the father, Maucho, underwent the procedure, which vets ...
After training a network of telescopes stretching from Hawaii to Antarctica to Spain at the heart of our galaxy for five nights running, astronomers said Wednesday they may have snapped the first-ever picture of a black hole. It will take months to develop the image, ...
Ministers of Japan and 10 other Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement members on Wednesday confirmed the significance of the deal, while expressing concern about rising protectionism around the world. It was the first ministerial meeting among TPP members since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the ...
China said Monday that a meeting in Chile to discuss a possible regional Pacific trade deal is not strictly about the languishing Trans-Pacific Partnership, as China tries to distance itself from one-time U.S.-led trade pact. Representatives from 12 countries that formed the TPP, plus China ...
Rainstorms and landslides in Chile killed four and contaminated a major river, forcing authorities to cut off drinking water to 4 million people in the capital, authorities said. The torrential rain that started Saturday prompted mudslides and rubble to surge into the Maipo river, which ...
A Chilean accused of killing a 21-year-old Japanese woman in France told Chile's Supreme Court on Tuesday that he is innocent, his lawyer said. Nicolas Zepeda Contreras appeared in court accompanied by his lawyer, responding to a summons issued after France asked to have him ...
Chile's Supreme Court has issued a summons for a Chilean man suspected of killing a Japanese student in France in December, officials said Wednesday. The suspect, 26-year-old Nicolas Zepeda Contreras, is "summoned to appear on Tuesday, February 14," said a statement from the country's highest ...
Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said Sunday. For nearly two weeks, fires have raged across seven regions in south and central ...
Forest fires ravaging southern Chile have now killed 11 people, President Michelle Bachelet said Saturday, as firefighters waged an all-out battle to extinguish the raging infernos. Bachelet told reporters that more than 9,000 firefighters and other responders have been enlisted to battle the fires, which ...
Flames from one of Chile's worst wildfires completely consumed the town of Santa Olga as the death toll from the blazes since November rose to 10, officials said Thursday. The flames engulfed the post office, a kindergarten, and about 1,000 homes in the town, located ...
