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Peru: Cesar Acuña accused of campaign finance irregularities

A newspaper report has revealed phantom donors to the presidential campaign of former La Libertad…

  • Culture

Peru wins fourth consecutive gastronomy tourism award

The World Travel Awards have selected Peru as the Best Culinary Destination in 2015 for…

  • News

Peru: Alan Garcia’s lawyer guilty in ‘narco-pardons’ case

A court sentenced the former lawyer for Alan Garcia, Miguel Facundo, to a prison sentence…

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Northern Peru gang included eight police officers

Police in Piura have arrested 29 members of a gang which included eight police officers…

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Peru: Alan Garcia wins party alliances for 2016 elections

The Popular Christian Party (PPC) will back APRA leader and presidential candidate Alan Garcia in…

  • Lima

TripAdvisor lists Lima as global destination ‘on the rise’

The tourism travel website, TripAdvisor, has placed Lima in its list of the world’s top 10…

  • Economy

Peru hikes interest rate as prices continue rising

Peru’s central bank has raised its key benchmark interest rate from 3.5% to 3.75% in…

  • News

City employees arrested for murder of northern Peru mayor

Police in Peru’s Ancash state are investigating 16 people including five municipal employees for the…

  • Culture

American opera depicts Peru’s 1996 Lima hostage crisis

An American opera house premiered on Monday the “Bel Canto” opera, which is set during the…

  • News

Peru elections: poll shows Acuña tied with Kuczynski

In the latest opinion polls in Peru, presidential candidate Cesar Acuña rose to 12% while…

  • News

American man arrested for sex trafficking of children in Peru

Police arrested American citizen Joshua Brown and five others in Lima on Sunday for trafficking…

  • News

Peru reduces probability of strong El Niño in 2016

Peru’s weather institute has reduced the probability of a strong or extraordinary El Niño climate…

  • News

Three priests murdered by Shining Path beatified in Peru

Three priests who were murdered by Shining Path rebels in 1991 became Peru’s first martyrs…

  • News

Peru set to extradite FIFA executive to US

Police in Peru have detained former Peruvian Soccer Federation (FPF) chief Manuel Burga in anticipation…

  • Lima

Peru implements martial law to fight crime in Lima port district

President Ollanta Humala has declared a state of emergency in Lima’s port district of Callao…