News: Peru

We have started to collect the most important news related to Peru in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Peru: news

VIDEO: Polls to open in Peru presidential vote

Sunday, April 10th 2011, 4:41

The vote is shaping up to one of the most unpredictable in decades, with none of the five main candidates expected to win outright.
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Peru cancels copper mine project

Saturday, April 9th 2011, 17:22

Peru cancels a vast copper mining project in the south of the country after violent clashes between police and protesters.
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VIDEO: What caused Japan's massive tsunami?

Friday, March 11th 2011, 14:28
related countries: Japan

The earthquake which rocked Japan triggered tsunami alerts across the entire Pacific basin, including Hawaii and Peru.
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VIDEO: Giant solar calendar measures time

Sunday, March 6th 2011, 9:42

Professor Brian Cox visits a giant solar calendar built in a desert in Peru in his quest to understand the nature of time in creating the universe.
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Peru halts anti-mining operation

Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 2:22

Peru's security forces suspend operations against illegal gold mining in the Amazon region after two miners died in clashes.
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Peru severs relations with Libya

Wednesday, February 23rd 2011, 3:41
related countries: Libya

Peruvian President Alan Garcia suspends relations with Libya over the use of force against civilians in anti-government protests there.
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Peru moves on illegal gold miners

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 13:08

Peru sends the military to destroy river dredgers used by illegal gold miners in the ecologically sensitive Madre de Dios Amazon region.
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Yale to return Peru's Inca relics

Saturday, February 12th 2011, 8:35
related countries: United States
related places: Inca

The US's Yale University has agreed to return thousands of archaeological pieces from Machu Picchu back to Peru, ending a long-running dispute.
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Dengue fever red alert in Peru

Friday, February 4th 2011, 2:49

Officials in Peru have declared a red alert after an outbreak of dengue fever in one Amazonian province.
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Fugitive Peru media baron caught

Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 10:03

Peruvian police arrest former media boss Jose Enrique Crousillat who spent months on the run after his pardon was revoked.
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Shamans make predictions for 2011

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 6:53

Peruvian faith healers gathered for their annual ritual aimed at assisting deserving world leaders and predicting fortunes for 2011.
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Fireworks explosion at Peruvian market

Wednesday, December 29th 2010, 4:37

Seven police officers are injured in an explosion as they try to confiscate illegal fireworks from vendors in a Peruvian street market.
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Peru stages public fighting festival

Monday, December 27th 2010, 23:49
related places: Cusco

Members of the Chumbilbilca community near Cusco in Peru have marked Christmas Day by taking part in a series of public bare-knuckled fights to settle scores ahead of the New Year.
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Welcome for Peru's Nobel winning writer

Tuesday, December 14th 2010, 10:16
related countries: Sweden
related places: Stockholm

The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, has arrived in his native Peru after receiving his award in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
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8,000-year-old chewed coca leaves found in Peru

Thursday, December 2nd 2010, 2:20

The earliest known medicinal use of the coca plant - from which cocaine is made - has been pushed back by thousands of years.
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Peruvian film seeks Oscar glory

Thursday, November 25th 2010, 9:34

Peru is hoping for Oscar glory with its hotly tipped film Undertow, submitted as its official entry in the best foreign language category for the 2011 awards ceremony.
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Protesters clash with police in Peru

Tuesday, November 23rd 2010, 13:34
related places: Cocachacra

Protesters threw stones and burned a bus during riots against proposals for a new Southern Copper mining project in the village of Cocachacra
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US to return Machu Picchu relics

Sunday, November 21st 2010, 0:31
related countries: United States
related places: Yale

The US's Yale University has promised to return thousands of archaeological pieces from Machu Picchu back to Peru, the Peruvian president says.
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Peru releases US activist again

Friday, November 5th 2010, 22:31
related countries: United States

An American woman who was imprisoned for aiding left-wing rebels in Peru is freed again, after an earlier parole was annulled on a technicality.
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Lima mayor's election finally won

Wednesday, October 27th 2010, 10:00
related places: Lima

The result is finally declared in the election for mayor of Lima with the Peruvian capital getting its first female leader, Susana Villaran.
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Peruvian footballers' 'spiked rivals' drinks'

Thursday, October 21st 2010, 11:22

A football team in Peru, who were battling for promotion, are demanding a probe after their drinks were allegedly spiked by rivals.
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Landlocked Bolivia eyes own port

Thursday, October 21st 2010, 11:20

Landlocked Bolivia eyes chance to have its own port on Pacific coast after a deal with Peru.
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Players drugged during match claim

Thursday, October 21st 2010, 8:53

Peruvian football players claim they were given sedatives in their water which caused them to faint in the middle of a match
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Queen of the Andes

Monday, October 18th 2010, 8:45

Why conservationists are trying to protect this towering plant in Peru
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Peru president denies slap claim

Thursday, October 14th 2010, 22:44

Peruvian President Alan Garcia denies slapping a man who called him corrupt during a visit to a hospital.
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Vargas Llosa awarded Nobel Prize

Thursday, October 7th 2010, 21:02

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature.
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