Peru

The Peruvian clinic that provided treatment to Colombian superstar Shakira for an abdominal condition in February has been fined $190,000 over the unauthorized leaking of her medical records, local health authorities announced on Wednesday. The 48-year-old...

A mountaineer from Japan died and another was rescued during a trek on Peru’s tallest mountain, authorities said Thursday. Chiaki Inada, 40, and Saki Terada, 36, became trapped Monday due to fog and bad weather on...

Colombian police on Thursday arrested the main suspect in the kidnapping and murder of 13 employees of a gold mine in the north of neighboring Peru, the government in Lima said. The burnt bodies of the...

Shakira has cancelled her concert in Peru’s capital on Sunday after being hospitalized with abdominal pain, a setback that comes days after she launched her first worldwide tour in seven years. The 48-year-old Colombian star posted...

Ten retired soldiers were sentenced to up to 12 years in jail by a Peruvian court on Wednesday for sexually assaulting nine rural women and girls during the 1980s while the army was battling Maoist militants...

Local authorities said on Monday that a bus in northern Peru had crashed into a ravine from a mountain route, resulting in at least 25 fatalities and over a dozen injuries. The tragedy occurred late on...

Strong-willed Peruvian Prime Minister Alberto Otarola resigned on Tuesday in the face of accusations that he used his position of power to influence a young woman he is claimed to have spoken to tenderly in recordings...

Nine people were killed and nearly a dozen injured in an attack on a gold mine, according to authorities in northern Peru on Saturday. A group of “armed criminals” invaded the Poderosa mine in the Pataz...

A team of Peruvian and Japanese archaeologists has unearthed a pre-Hispanic archaeological site in northern Peru dedicated to ancestor worship, with burial chambers, human remains and ceramic offerings. “We have discovered an archaeological site of the...

The attorney general’s office reported that on Sunday, Peruvian authorities freed 23 Afghans from migrant traffickers along the Brazilian border. Prosecutors claimed that the migrants, who were seeking to reach Ecuador, paid people smugglers for transportation...