Switzerland plans to ban international adoptions after past scandals. Is this about child welfare or politics?

Adrián Simancas was out kayaking with his dad off the coast of Chile on Saturday when the whale engulfed him and his boat and ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he hopes all three countries could agree to cut ...

The United States must rethink lithium geopolitics in 2025 amid rising competition from China and Russia in Latin America's ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has issued state of emergency decrees for two regions in the center and south of the country ...

The Antarctic Treaty System has been long heralded as a model of international cooperation. It has successfully maintained ...

For many years, this column ran stories about Rimas Meleshyus, Astoria’s wayward aspiring around-the-world Russian sailor and Kon-Tiki drifter (who never learned how to sail). No matter how many times ...

Mataveri International Airport (IPC) is also known as Isla de Pascua Airport. Located on the Chilean territory of Easter ...

Six team staffers and broadcasters also were killed.Russian ice hockey teamOn Sept ... flight carrying the Old Christians Club from Montevideo Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the snowy Andes ...

"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

Credit: Superintendencia de Medio Ambiente. Chile’s environmental agency, Superintendencia de Medio Ambiente (SMA), has ordered the complete and definitive closure of the Mina Alcaparrosa project, ...

Chile's Congress approved a reform to the country's controversial private pension system on Wednesday, clearing the way for ...