We have started to collect the most important news related to Peru in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
A court in Peru sentences the last of the original leaders of the Shining Path rebels, Comrade Artemio, to life in prison.
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President Humala of Peru rejects a request to pardon the jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori on health grounds, saying that he is not terminally ill.
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Hundreds of professional clowns celebrate Clown Day in the Peruvian capital, Lima
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Four countries in Latin America - Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru - have agreed to scrap most of the tariffs on trade between their four countries.
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A senior doctor treating Alberto Fujimori says the jailed former president of Peru has severe and worsening health problems.
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Ecuador and Peru agree to replace their respective ambassadors after the Ecuadorean envoy's involvement in a supermarket brawl.
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Peruvian police say they have identified the body of the alleged leader of a cult that burnt a newborn baby alive last year in the town of Colliguay.
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Peru says a body found in the Pacific Ocean is that of pilot of a hot air balloon that crashed on Sunday, while another man is still missing.
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Peruvian authorities say they will press charges against the owners of the hot air balloon that crashed on Sunday, because it was not properly licensed.
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Officials in the Brazilian state of Acre seek federal help to deal with a wave of illegal immigrants arriving from Peru and Bolivia.
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Nine passengers and four crew are feared dead after the helicopter they were flying in crashed in a jungle in the north-east of Peru.
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Locals from a small town in Peru come out in force on Wednesday to illuminate a remote airstrip for an emergency night flight with the headlights of their motorbikes and rickshaws.
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Susana Villaran, the first woman mayor of Peru's capital Lima, narrowly survives a vote to depose her from office, exit polls suggest.
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New evidence strengthens the argument that maize played an important role in ancient Peruvian civilisation 5,000 years ago, a study suggests.
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The remains of a small temple believed to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old are discovered at an archaeological site near Peru's capital, Lima.
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Torrential rain creates havoc along the Pacific coast side of South America, with flooding causing the deaths of at least six people in Peru.
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Conservationists in Peru hope a breeding program will help increase the numbers of Humboldt penguins.
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Two people have been in killed in Peru in a head-on collision involving a support vehicle for a British team contesting the Dakar rally.
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A helicopter carrying seven people crashes in a village in Peru, killing five US citizens and two Peruvians.
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Peruvian police are hunting for 19 young inmates still on the run after two mass breakouts in 24 hours from a juvenile detention centre.
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Further torrential rain has wreaked havoc in the central Amazon region of Peru, displacing hundreds of families, devastating local crops and demolishing public infrastructure.
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