Sources: BBC
A court in Lima, Peru, sentences former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia to 15 years in prison for laundering funds from Brazilian company Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 presidential campaigns. 2025-04-15
Peruvian authorities launch an investigation into President Dina Boluarte for disbanding a police force that was investigating her brother Nicanor Boluarte, who was arrested for alleged influence peddling. 2024-05-10
Landslides triggered by heavy rains causes mudslides across villages in the Camaná Province, Peru, killing 36 people. 2023-02-6
Peru reports its first confirmed death from monkeypox in a 45-year-old male with underlying health conditions. 2022-08-1
Sinopharm is setting up production lines to supply up to one billion doses of two COVID-19 vaccines currently being tested on 50,000 people in Phase III trials. Sinopharm is currently testing the vaccines in ten countries, including Egypt, Argentina, Jordan, and Peru. 2020-10-20
Minister of Defense of Peru Walter Martos is named the new Prime Minister after the approval of the motion of no-confidence against Pedro Cateriano. 2020-08-6
State television broadcasts images it says are captured high-calibre weapons, Peruvian documents, and uniforms emblazoned with an American flag. 2020-05-3
Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions. 2012-03-10
Peruvian AIDESEP indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, detained on Wednesday as he returned from almost a year in exile in Nicaragua and charged with objecting to oil digging in the rainforest, is released on bail. 2010-05-28
A huge glacier breaks off and plunges into a lake in Peru sparking a 23-metre high tsunami wave that destroyed a nearby town. The massive chunk of ice - around the size of four football pitches - tumbled into the '513 lake' in the Andes near Carhuaz, around 200 miles north of Lima. 2010-04-13