Sources: BBC News
Police raid the home of Peru's former chief electoral official as part of a new probe into alleged electoral irregularities, after he resigned this week over delays in counting votes from the recent general election. [https:--www.reuters.com-world-americas-peruvian-police-raids-property-former-electoral-chief-amid-irregularities-2026-04-24- (Reuters)]2026 Peruvian post-electoral crisis2026-04-24
Peruvian defence minister Carlos Díaz Dañino and foreign minister Hugo de Zela resign following president José María Balcázar's decision to postpone the purchase of F-16 fighter jets from the United States. 2026-04-22
Following two rounds of voting, José María Balcázar succeeds the removed José Jerí as interim President of Peru. 2026-02-18
The Peruvian Supreme Court sentences former president Pedro Castillo to 11 and a half years in prison for criminal conspiracy when he tried to dissolve Congress and attempted a self-coup in 2022. 2025-11-27
At least 24 people are killed when a bus plunges off a cliff in the El Alto District, Talara Province, Peru. 2023-01-28
Peru reports its first case of the Delta variant, which was originally detected in India in the southern city of Arequipa. 2021-06-9
The face of the Peruvian Moche mummy the Lady of Cao is reconstructed from its skull structure, using forensic archaeology techniques and ethnographic research. 2017-07-5
Search crews locate the wreckage of a missing Sikorsky H-34 helicopter near Mt. Mamarosa in southern Peru, with all 14 on board confirmed dead. 2012-06-9
Two Ugandans and one Peruvian are killed and 15 others are injured in a bomb in Baghdad, Iraq. 2010-07-22
The main suspect in the murder of Stephany Flores Ramírez, Joran van der Sloot, confesses to her murder in Peru. 2010-06-7