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Tonga is hit by ashfall and a tsunami after the eruption of Hunga Tonga, destroying homes as locals struggle to find higher ground. Major flooding is reported in the capital Nukuʻalofa. Shock waves from the eruption are detected as far away as Alaska, United States. Other Pacific countries have also advised their citizens to seek higher ground. Internet access has reportedly been disrupted in Tonga.
2022-01-15

Peru reports its first case of the Delta variant, which was originally detected in India in the southern city of Arequipa.
2021-06-9

Sinopharm began Phase III trials in Peru starting with two dozen people, with the goal to vaccinate 6,000 people between the ages of 18 and 75. So far, Sinopharm has given 30,000 doses to volunteers and another 10,000 participants have received double doses in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, with additional trials planned for Morocco and Argentina.
2020-09-10

Archaeologists in Huanchaco, Peru unearth 227 sets of human remains aged between five and fourteen, and believed to be sacrificed over 500 years prior. The discovery is the largest known child sacrifice in history.
2019-08-28

In Peru, two trains collide en route to Machu Picchu, injuring 15.
2018-07-31

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 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

Off the coast in the north of Peru hundreds of dolphins and more than 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans, die under unexplained circumstances.
2012-05-6

A state of emergency is declared in parts of Bolivia and rescue efforts continue in Peru amid heavy rain and floods in the region.
2010-01-29