LIMA (AFP) - At least 33 people died and 10 others were injured early Saturday after a bus plunged 200 meters (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said. The bus with the Horna company veered off a mountain road near the town of Otuzco some 570 kilometers (350 miles) north of Lima. ...

LIMA - At least 33 people died and 10 others were injured early Saturday after a bus plunged 200 meters (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said. The bus with the Horna company veered off a mountain road near the town of Otuzco some 570 kilometers (350 miles) north of Lima. ...

At least 33 people died and 10 others were injured early Sunday after a bus plunged 200 meters (650 feet) down a ravine in northern Peru, police said.The bus with the Horna company veered off a mountain road near the town of Otuzco some 570 kilometers (350 miles) north of Lima. Authorities blamed ...

LIMA  - Peru will launch an aggressive plan to prepay up to $1.5 billion in debt in 2013 to try to stem the Peruvian sol’s appreciation by soaking up foreign currency in the local market, Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla said on Saturday.“We are going to use and make ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexicos Senate has ratified a free trade deal with Peru, shortly after it was rejected by a Senate commission, after a last-minute push from the ruling party. The close vote 55 for and 47 against passed late Thursday, following five years of negotiations between the two Latin ...

CUSCO (Reuters) - Peru's fiscal stimulus package "could be increased" from its current size of about 2 percent of gross domestic product, depending on the depth of a possible global economic crisis, Finance Minister Luis Miguel Castilla said. Castilla told Reuters that beyond the stimulus package ...

A MUMMIFIED elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens. The strangely shaped head - almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body - has baffled anthropologists. It was one of two sets of remains found in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of Quispicanchi. The ...

LIMA (AFP) - Peru on Monday faced the prospect of a polarized second round vote for president, between leftist ex-soldier Ollanta Humala and right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the jailed ex-president. Humala, 48, who just missed out on the 2006 presidency, led with 29% of the vote, ...

A traffic accident involving a truck and two buses left at least 14 people dead and 57 people injured on the road linking the southern cities of Arequipa and Juliaca, a police spokesman said. On Tuesday, 12 people were killed and 39 injured when a bus fell into a gorge.

Indian troops on Tuesday killed five more Kashmiris in the Occupied Kashmir. The protests came the day after Indian troops shot dead leading Kashmiri leader and head of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Sheikh Abdul Aziz and four other demonstrators in the disputed valley, the scene of worsening ...

Peruvian regional authorities have decided to protect isolated tribes in the Amazon rainforest against the threat of illegal logging, after repeated warnings about their plight. The presence of the indigenous people between Peru and Brazil was revealed in September 2007 by the National Institute of ...

A retired general on Wednesday accused Alberto Fujimori of leading the Colina Group death squad, during the former president's trial for 25 murders committed by that group in 1991 and 1992. Rodolfo Robles also told the court he feels under threat after noticing that two cars have been following his ...