Sources: BBC
Twenty-four people are killed and 21 more injured after a bus plunges in to a ravine in the Andes mountains, Peru. 2023-09-18
Texas reports their first case of the Lambda variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was first detected in Peru. 2021-07-19
Peru launches a vaccination program against COVID-19 two days after it received 300,000 doses of Sinopharm's BBIBP-CorV vaccine. President Francisco Sagasti becomes the first person to get vaccinated. 2021-02-9
The Prosecutor's Office of Peru opens a preliminary investigation to determine if there were alleged political benefits – among them the humanitarian pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori – offered by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to avoid being removed from his office during the first impeachment process against him in December 2017. Three months later, in the middle of a similar scenario, Kuczynski resigned, seeing that Congress would no longer favor him. 2018-06-28
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Pacific Ocean near Acarí in Peru's Arequipa Region resulting in 1 death and 65 injured. 2018-01-14
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
The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. 2015-04-16
Peru seizes $2.3 million in counterfeit U.S. 50 dollar bills heading to other South American countries. 2012-08-2
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes 51 kilometres south-west of the city of Ica in Peru at a depth of 35 km. No reports of casualties are issued. 2011-10-28
Protesting indigenous people take over half of the city of Puno in south-eastern Peru, demanding an end to a Canadian mining project. 2011-05-28