Sources: BBC
The government of Peru imposes a curfew and temporarily suspends gold mining in Pataz Province for 30 days after the bodies of thirteen miners who were kidnapped and killed were discovered on Sunday. 2025-05-6
The Peruvian Ministry of Health announces that it will stop labeling transgender individuals as suffering from mental disorders, but will instead use the term "gender discordance". 2024-06-25
The head of Peru's Supreme Court resigns amid allegations of accepting bribes. 2018-07-19
Peru's electoral court bans two leading candidates – Julio Guzman and César Acuña Peralta – from participating in next month's election due to breaches of electoral law. 2016-03-9
A bus crashes into traffic near Huarmey in northern Peru, leaving at least thirty-seven people dead and dozens injured. 2015-03-23
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes the Peruvian–Chilean border, causing power cuts but no serious immediate damage. No casualties have been reported. 2012-05-14
Nine miners are rescued from a collapsed copper mine in southern Peru. 2012-04-11
Five people are killed and 25 injured in clashes with police in the Puno region, Peru, in protests over mining projects. 2011-06-25
Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa is announced as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. 2010-10-7