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Four miners are killed and another is injured after a water pipeline ruptured inside a coal mine in Jaworzno, Poland.
2023-11-28

The United Kingdom announces visa-free entry for ordinary citizens of Colombia, Guyana and Peru.
2022-10-18

Several miners including four Chinese nationals are kidnapped by terrorists in Shiroro, Niger State, Nigeria.
2022-06-29

Metal markets register new highs. Aluminium and nickel register a record price on the London stock exchange, at about $4,000 and $55,000 per tonne, respectively; nickel prices rose 90% on intraday trading. Copper also recorded new highs, at $10,845 per tonne, while palladium reached $3,440 per ounce. Russia is a substantial producer of all of these metals, and the market expects shortages of these commodities as the country is hit by further sanctions.
2022-03-7

Sinopharm is setting up production lines to supply up to one billion doses of two COVID-19 vaccines currently being tested on 50,000 people in Phase III trials. Sinopharm is currently testing the vaccines in ten countries, including Egypt, Argentina, Jordan, and Peru.
2020-10-20

Peruvian authorities investigate the death of British De La Salle Brother Paul McAuley, age 71. According to the report he is burned to death in a home he founded for indigenous students in Iquitos, in the northeastern Amazonian region.
2019-04-2

The Chinese city of Shifang cancels the planned development of a copper plant after thousands of people demonstrated.
2012-07-4

Hundreds of nude cyclists take to the street in Lima, Peru to protest unsafe road conditions.
2012-03-10

A fire in Peru destroys half a million textbooks and other education materials.
2012-03-10

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake shakes northern Chile and southern Peru.
2011-03-6