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LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s government on Sunday declared that a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections had begun to hit the country, which has one of the highest mortality rates from the virus in the world. “We are currently in a fourth wave, as we have seen the increase (of cases)… in different provinces of our country, such as Junin, Arequipa, Cusco and the capital,” Health Minister Jorge Lopez told local broadcaster RPP radio. According […]
DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Australia on Tuesday celebrated the antics of dancing goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne whose penalty shootout save against Peru saw them to a fifth straight World Cup finals. The 33-year-old clowned his way along the goal line as Peru’s players prepared to take their penalty kicks and his block of Alex Valera’s shot gave Australia a 5-4 win after the two sides had been deadlocked without a goal for 120 minutes. Australia coach […]
A strong 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Peru on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, with Peruvian authorities adding there were no dead or injured. The quake hit at 7:02 am local time (1202 GMT), at a depth of 218 kilometers (135 miles), according to the USGS, sending people fleeing into the streets. Peru‘s National Seismological Center said the quake had a magnitude of 6.9 and a depth of 240 kilometers. Its epicenter was 20 kilometers […]
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook Lima and a large surrounding area Thursday, alarming many locals but with no immediate reports of damage or injury, the National Seismological Center reported. The tremor was recorded at 4:55 p.m. local time (2155 GMT), with an epicenter 30 kilometers west of Chilca, a coastal town south of Lima, and 49 kilometers deep, the Center reported. “5.5 magnitude earthquake occurred 30 km W of Chilca, [province of] Canete. [In] Lima it […]
by Carlos MANDUJANO / Luis Jaime CISNEROS LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s President Pedro Castillo avoided impeachment by an opposition-dominated Congress on Monday, bringing to a close the second bid to unseat him since he rose to power eight months ago. Following a parliamentary debate that lasted more than eight hours, 55 legislators voted in favor of Castillo’s impeachment, 54 voted against, and 19 abstained. Eighty-seven votes would have been required to impeach the leftist […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) – The death toll in a landslide in northern Peru has risen to eight with the recovery of a young child’s body, officials said Sunday. “With deep regret, I want to inform you that we have recovered the body of a child under three years of age in the town of Retamas,” said Defense Minister Jose Luis Gavidia. At least three other victims of Tuesday’s landslide were children, Gavidia said earlier. Civil […]
by Said VELASQUEZ con Carlos MANDUJANO en LIMA Agence France-Presse RETAMAS, Peru (AFP) – Rescuers digging through a landslide in northern Peru said Wednesday they had recovered three dead bodies, including a one-month-old baby. A landslide Tuesday in the town of Retamas, around 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Lima, buried several homes and trapped at least eight people, five of whom are still missing, authorities said. “We were able to recover the body of […]
by Carlos MANDUJANO Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) – A landslide on Tuesday in the northern Peruvian town of Retamas has buried dozens of homes and trapped at least 15 people, according to authorities. A video circulating on social media shows a hill’s collapse, and the person filming can be heard screaming “No! God! It’s all buried.” Manuel Llempen, the governor of the La Libertad region where Retamas is located, told RPP radio that “the […]
LIMA, PERU, At least 20 people, including a four-year-old girl, died and another 30 were injured when a bus crashed off a road into a ravine in northern Peru, authorities said Thursday. The bus rolled down a 100-meter (328-foot) slope in the remote northern Libertad region on Wednesday afternoon, the local government said. News of the crash took hours to filter out due to the remoteness of the region. The bus was traveling from Tayabamba […]
by Carlos MANDUJANO Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) – Hand fed fish and given gentle yet rigorous baths, penguins and other sea birds are slowly regaining their strength at a Peruvian zoo after a major oil spill that claimed many of their friends. Of about 150 oil-stained birds rescued alive after the January 15 spill of some 12,000 barrels of oil, half later died. The survivors — penguins, cormorants and pelicans — are being nursed […]
CALLAO, Peru (AFP) – Spanish energy giant Repsol on Thursday vowed to finish by March cleaning up a devastating oil spill that has polluted beaches and killed wildlife. Almost 12,000 barrels of crude spilled into the sea off Peru on January 15 as a tanker unloaded oil at a Repsol owned refinery. “We expect that if the weather allows us then, in mid-March” the cleaning of beaches and islands off the coast will be completed, […]
by Francisco JARA Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) – The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a volcanic eruption thousands of miles away is twice as big as previously reported, the government said Friday. The announcement came hours after a court banned four directors from the Spanish oil company Repsol, which owns the refinery where the accident took place, from leaving the country for 18 months. Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez told reporters […]
