Sources: BBC
At least three informal miners are killed in a shooting in Pataz District, Department of La Libertad, Peru. Two people are arrested. 2025-12-31
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
Thirteen people are killed, including one missing, with six survivors after a boat capsizes on the Inambari River in Carabaya Province, Peru. 2025-02-10
Venezuela recalls its diplomats in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay after those countries oppose the election results. 2024-07-29
Thirteen people, including former Congressman Édgar Alarcón, are killed in a bus crash in Vinchos, Huamanga Province, Peru. 2024-05-14
Research shows that fossil bones of the "Perucetus colossus" whale discovered in Peru could indicate that it was the heaviest animal to have ever existed. 2023-08-3
A LATAM Airlines A320neo jet collides with a fire truck at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru, killing two firefighters and injuring 25 other people. 2022-11-18
U.S. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announces that the Biden administration will ship 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Peru and 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan. Additionally, the United States will also send vaccine doses to Bangladesh. 2021-06-29
Voters in Peru go to the polls for a general election with Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Kuczynski going through to the second round. 2016-04-10
At least twenty-two people die in Peru after a bus plunges into a ravine. 2011-02-25