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Chile's new right-wing government has begun deploying heavy machinery to dig trenches along its northern border with Peru, moving to ​deliver on President Jose Antonio Kast's campaign pledge to crack down ‌on illegal mig...

Fifteen people have died after a military helicopter providing rescue services during severe flooding in south Peru crashed on Sunday.

Peru has a new interim president following the removal from office of José Jerí by Congress over allegations of influence peddling, which Jerí has denied.

Peru's Congress has ousted interim President José Jerí just four months after he took office for failing to disclose meetings with Chinese businessmen.

The Trump administration on Wednesday expressed concern that China was costing Peru its sovereignty in solidifying control over the South American nation’s critical infrastructure, a blunt warning after a Peruvian court...

At least three people were killed in a New Year's Eve attack on informal miners in Pataz district in northern Peru, local authorities and a mining firm said on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on small-scale g...

A train driver was killed and 40 more people were injured on Tuesday after two trains collided head-on on the railway leading to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the Andean nation's top tourist site that draws well over...

Peruvian journalist Fernando Nunez, whose reporting dug into municipal corruption cases, was shot and killed by hitmen while returning from an assignment, Peru's National Association of Journalists (ANP) said Sunday.

Peru's electoral authority will provide bulletproof vests to presidential candidates ahead of April's elections after a spate of attacks on politicians in the Andean nation.

President José Jerí of Peru said his government on Friday would declare a state of emergency along the country’s southern border and deploy more armed forces to the area as a large number of Venezuelan migrants venture n...

Peru's judiciary on Thursday sentenced former leftist President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for rebellion and conspiracy against the state at the end of 2022, when he unsuccessfully attempted to dissolve Congr...

A passenger bus fell into a deep ravine early Wednesday after crashing with another vehicle in southern Peru, killing at least 37 people and injuring 13 more, authorities said.

Peru’s Congress on Thursday declared Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum persona non grata after Mexico decided to grant asylum to former Peruvian Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, in what Peruvian officials called repeated...

Interpol and partners launched a global law enforcement effort Wednesday aimed at dismantling criminal networks behind illegal logging, timber trafficking and gold mining, which drive large-scale deforestation and genera...

Peru has decided to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Andean nation's foreign minister said on Monday, after Peru's former prime minister holed up in the Mexican embassy in the country to request asylum.

Residents of Peru’s capital saw more soldiers and police patrolling the streets on Wednesday, the first day of a state of emergency decreed by newly sworn in President José Jerí in an effort to reign in crime.

Peru's Generation Z is leading protests against rampant crime and years of political deadlock -- demanding systemic change after watching seven presidents come and go in a decade.

Less than a week after José Jerí was sworn in as Peru’s eighth president in less than a decade, public discontent over a wave of violent extortion rackets was already threatening his ability to lead the country into elec...

Peru’s new President José Jerí refused to resign on Thursday following the death of a protester during a massive demonstration led by Gen Z activists demanding he step down.

Peruvian President Jose Jeri swore in the first members of his cabinet on Tuesday, sending the most concrete signals yet about how he would govern after vaulting into power last week following his predecessor Dina Boluar...