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Kazakhstan’s weightlifter Tatyana Kapustina won gold in +69 kg at the IWF World Youth Championship in Peru.

• 15 апреля 2015, 19:10

Peru's President Ollanta Humala named a new prime minister, moving to end a crisis sparked by spying allegations leveled at the previous premier.

• 03 апреля 2015, 15:18

Some 21 million Peruvians are voting in regional and municipal elections, with many candidates accused of corruption, drug-trafficking ties.

• 06 октября 2014, 09:57

A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Peru Sunday, US experts said.

• 25 августа 2014, 14:51

Latin America's Pacific Alliance trade bloc agreed to allow citizens to live and work in any of the four member countries for a year.

• 20 июня 2014, 12:49

Five aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who were kidnapped in Syria in January have been freed, the medical charity said.

• 16 мая 2014, 14:57

A Peruvian air force NCO whose parachute malfunctioned during a training exercise survived a 1,500-meter (5,000-feet) fall with nary a broken bone.

• 10 мая 2014, 13:21

Peruvian police on Tuesday burned about 11 tons of drugs confiscated in raids in recent months.

• 30 апреля 2014, 12:39

Peruvian authorities announced an investigation Tuesday into the killing of five penguins fund slashed to death at a center for endangered species.

• 24 апреля 2014, 03:17

Peruvian authorities began evacuating 4,000 people Thursday from villages near a volcano that has seen significantly increased activity, spewing smoke and ash.

• 18 апреля 2014, 12:18

Residents have fled villages near Peru's Ubinas volcano, which this week began spitting out white hot chunks of rock, some as big as 30 centimeters (one foot) in diameter.

• 12 апреля 2014, 13:05

A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit Chile's Pacific coast Tuesday, triggering tsunami waves of more than two meters and warnings for people to flee to higher ground.

• 02 апреля 2014, 10:19

Italian industrial giant Finmeccanica on Friday said it had won a $1.2 billion (873 million euro) contract for building and operating unmanned metro lines in Lima.

• 30 марта 2014, 17:26

He's not even 50, but he's already transformed Peruvian cuisine and his restaurants are ranked among the best in the world.

• 14 марта 2014, 09:51

Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard at a national park in Peru.

• 12 марта 2014, 16:50

Peru has increased surveillance at popular archeological sites to counter a new trend of tourists taking nude photos at Machu Picchu.

• 12 марта 2014, 12:00

The bodies of around 400 dolphins washed up on beaches in northern Peru last month, baffling authorities who are so far mystified as to the cause.

• 05 февраля 2014, 16:34

Lima cried victory Monday after the UN's top court handed it a wedge of sea under Chilean sovereignty, but Peruvian fishermen nevertheless said they gained nothing from the historic ruling.

• 28 января 2014, 15:50

A scientific study out Thursday identifies 78 sites worldwide in dire need of environmental protection because they harbor species that could go extinct.

• 15 ноября 2013, 14:11

Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima.

• 25 октября 2013, 15:30