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Seven police officers are killed and another is injured when their vehicle is ambushed in Valle de los Ríos Apurímac, Ene y Mantaro, Peru, in a suspected attack by remnants of Shining Path.
2023-02-11

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, servicing most of Greater Los Angeles, declares a water shortage emergency and requires agencies to enforce restrictions on non-essential water usage as of June 1. This comes amid a drought which worsened as the 2021–22 California winter season was the driest on record.
2022-04-27

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Peru at 131 km of depth, killing one person and injuring 12 others. 75 homes are destroyed and around 220 damaged. The earthquake is felt as far south as Lima. President Pedro Castillo orders the deployment of relief and also viewed the area in a military aircraft.
2021-11-28

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

A coach bus plunges off a cliff on a coastal road in Peru, killing at least 48 people.
2018-01-2

Voters in Peru go to the polls for the second round of voting in a presidential election where Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are the remaining candidates.
2016-06-5

A bus crashes into traffic near Huarmey in northern Peru, leaving at least thirty-seven people dead and dozens injured.
2015-03-23

A 4,000-year-old pyramid at El Paraíso in Peru is destroyed by property developers.
2013-07-3

The United Nations reports the worst drought in six decades is affecting more than 10 million people and forced people in Somalia to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia as they starve to death.
2011-06-28

Two Ugandans and one Peruvian are killed and 15 others are injured in a bomb in Baghdad, Iraq.
2010-07-22