Sources: BBC
Out of control and deadly wildfires in Peru have reached at least seven archaeological sites and have begun to burn near the indigenous Shipibo-Conibo community. 2024-09-19
Spain donates 7.5 million vaccines to Latin American countries, with the first countries to receive these vaccines being Peru, Paraguay and Guatemala. 2021-08-5
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
Peru signs a deal with Pfizer to purchase 20 million doses of its vaccine. 2021-02-4
Peru temporarily suspends Phase III trials of Sinopharm's vaccine after detecting neurological problems in one of its volunteers. Peru's trials for the vaccine were due to conclude this week, after testing around 12,000 people. 2020-12-12
Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Peru and Poland are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2018. 2017-06-2
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
Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa is announced as the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. 2010-10-7
More than half of Peru enters a state of emergency due to unusually cold weather. 2010-07-24
Joran Van der Sloot said he'll reveal the location of U.S teen Natalee Holloway's body to the investigators if authorities transfer him to an Aruban jail from his current jail in Peru. 2010-06-13