Sources: BBC
Residents of Lobitos and Cabo Blanco, Peru, demonstrate against Peruvian state-owned oil company PetroPerú following an oil spill that contaminated six beaches. 2024-12-24
The Global Wildfire Information System states that 10,400 wildfires have been reported in Peru so far this year, more than twice as many as were reported in 2020, and that the wildfires burned an area nearly 2.5 times larger than those in 2020. 2024-10-11
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador says that his government will continue to recognize detained former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo as president of Peru and says that relations between both countries are now "paused". 2022-12-13
Peru announces that people over the age of 18 years who want to enter indoor spaces must show a proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 beginning in December, either physical or virtual vaccination cards. 2021-11-14
Peru's President Pedro Castillo names Guido Bellido of the party Free Peru as his prime minister. 2021-07-29
Interim President Francisco Sagasti extends the COVID-19 state of emergency in Peru until the end of August. 2021-07-11
Peru reports a record 11,260 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,492,519. 2021-03-25
Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece." 2016-03-20
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
Yines, a previously unknown indigenous tribe, is discovered in the Amazonian jungle of southeast Peru. 2010-11-14