Police in Peru have raided President Dina Boluarte's home as part of a corruption inquiry dubbed "Rolexgate".
Authorities were searching for more than a dozen Rolex watches President Boluarte had allegedly not declared.
The investigation began after (...)
Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison on Wednesday ahead of the completion of his sentence for authorizing the operation of a death squad in his country, according to court documents and images of the ailing ex-leader (...)
أصيب شاب في بيرو يبلغ من العمر 20 عاما بمرض سببه فيروس جديد بحسب تقرير نشره موقع "ديلي ميل".
وفي التفاصيل، ذهب المريض (عامل بناء)، الذي لم يتم تحديد هويته، إلى المستشفى نتيجة معاناته من أعراض تشمل الحمى والقشعريرة وآلام في العضلات والمفاصل.
وليس (...)
A leading critic of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was granted bail on Monday after almost seven years in jail on charges related to his bloody war on drugs.
Former senator Leila de Lima is accused of receiving drug money in a case that (...)
A British model and TikToker has been jailed for nearly seven years in Peru after he was caught trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
Modou Adams was stopped at the Jorge Chávez International Airport on 30 September with 2.9kg (6.4lb) of (...)
Water levels at Lake Titicaca – the highest navigable lake in the world and South America's largest – are dropping precipitously after an unprecedented winter heat wave. The shocking decline is affecting tourism, fishing and agriculture, which (...)
Peru's health ministry said on Thursday that Corinthians are not at risk of contracting Guillain-Barre syndrome when they visit the country next week after the coach of the Brazilian soccer team voiced concerns about playing in Lima, Reuters (...)
Archaeologists in the Peruvian Andes have discovered an Inca bathing complex built half a millennium ago, which they believe may have served the elite of the sprawling empire than once dominated large swathes of South America.
Found near the "House (...)
An Indonesian court has acquitted two policemen charged over the Kanjuruhan stadium crush last year, angering relatives of victims in the tragedy.
Police had been blamed for triggering the crush that night after firing tear gas at spectators on the (...)
Peru has recalled its ambassador in Mexico indefinitely after Mexico's president said Peru's government was "unconstitutional".
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also said that Peru's former president Pedro Castillo had been "illegally ousted."
Peru's (...)
Peru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing protests against the country's new president.
The government said it closed the site, and the Inca trail hike leading up to it, to protect tourists and (...)
Peru has ordered Mexico's ambassador to leave the Andean country within 72 hours, declaring him "persona non grata," according its foreign ministry on Tuesday, after the family of its ousted president was granted asylum by the Mexican (...)
At least 20 people have been killed and dozens injured and arrested in protests since the impeachment of Pedro Castillo on Dec. 7.
Peru's president, who replaced Castillo earlier this month, wrote on Twitter: "We mourn the crying of the mothers in (...)
Mexico says it is considering granting asylum to Peru's former President Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and then accused of rebellion in a dramatic turn of events on Wednesday.
Castillo, 53, is now in custody in Lima. His asylum request has been (...)
Peru has a female president for the first time, after ex-president Pedro Castillo was impeached — hours after he tried to dissolve parliament.
Dina Boluarte — previously the vice-president — was sworn in after a dramatic day in Lima on (...)
Tear gas fired by Indonesian police triggered last month's deadly crush at a football match, which left 135 people dead, a report said.
The country's human rights commission also said that most of the deaths at the Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East (...)
At least 174 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world's worst stadium disasters.
About 180 were also hurt in aftermath of home team Arema FC's loss to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium late (...)
The role of electoral authorities is fundamental to protect democratic space in Peru, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in the capital, Lima, on Wednesday, concluding a two-day mission to the country.
"Polarization has (...)
Eight people are now suspects in the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, police say.
Three suspects have already been arrested.
But five more people who allegedly helped hide their bodies have now been (...)
Saudi Arabia participated in celebrating the International Women's Day in the Maritime Sector, which falls on May 18 of each year, and approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2021 as an annual occasion, with the aim of (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia participated in celebrating the International Women's Day in the Maritime Sector, which falls on the eighteenth of May of each year, and approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2021 as an annual (...)
Peru has failed to protect the rights of two fleeing demonstrators who were shot dead when police opened fire on a non-violent march in February 2008, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a decision published on Friday.
Moreover, it added that the (...)
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has imposed a curfew in the capital, Lima, and the port city of Callao following nationwide protests over rising fuel and fertiliser prices.
On Sunday, the government announced it would temporarily scrap the fuel (...)
LIMA — Peru's President Pedro Castillo received on Friday Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and member of the Council of Ministers Adel Aljubeir, during his official visit to the Republic of Peru.
During the reception, Aljubeir conveyed (...)
The first foreign aid plane has arrived in Tonga, carrying much-needed water and supplies for the Pacific nation.
New Zealand said its military plane landed at Tonga's main airport after workers cleared ash from the runway.
Other planes and ships (...)