Chile
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Lithium
Resources nationalism is threatening China’s push to secure critical minerals
Partial nationalisation of a vast lithium project in Chile is the latest move by developed and developing countries to prevent China from locking up the mineral supply critical to its dominance of the world’s battery industry.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Sunday Life
The June 2 Edition
In our special winter reading issue, we talk with a slew of great writers. Famed Chilean author Isabel Allende graces our cover and share her success story.
At 81, Isabel Allende knows how she’d like to die: ‘At home, with warm socks and a dog’
The Chilean writer, who has sold more than 74 million books, has an unlikely new project featuring her rescue dog, Perla.
- by Robyn Doreian
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Bulls N' Bears
Pan Asia sets sights on lithium brines at Chilean salt flats
Pan Asia Metals is joining the list of lithium brine explorers after picking up a massive chunk of prime real estate with its Tama Atacama project in Chile.
- by Michael Philipps
Developer sells stunning land for $100m. The buyer will never build a thing
Not far from where the Andes Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean, a vast swath of pristine wilderness is changing hands under the most unusual circumstances.
- by David Gelles
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Extreme weather
‘Like entering hell’: Chile fires kill dozens, thousands of homes destroyed
The confirmed death toll has risen to 112 people, AP reported. Hundreds remain missing. At least 1600 people have been left homeless.
- by Annie Correal and John Bartlett
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Airline review: This new business class is a great improvement
LATAM still can’t quite compete with the world’s best on the likes of food and entertainment, but it’s getting there.
- by Ben Groundwater
‘No one’s the freak’: How Adam Hills fell in love with para-standing tennis
The comedian and TV host will play in the first tournament of its kind staged in Australia.
- by Stephen Brook
First cats took over this prison. Then they stole its prisoners’ hearts
Chilean prison officials realised, after decades ignoring them, that the feline residents were not only good for the rat problem: they were also good for the inmates.
- by Jack Nicas
The pro-Israel world leader who is converting to Judaism
In his first trip since winning the Argentinian election, Javier Milei travelled to New York to pray with rabbis at the tomb of a famous orthodox rabbi.
- by Patrick Gillespie and Manuela Tobias
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