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COVID forces FIFA to postpone U-20, U-17 World Cups

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 25 07:42 PM

FIFA has postponed next year's U-20 World Cup in Indonesia and U-17 tournament in Peru until 2023 due to coronavirus. Read more »

Peru surpasses 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus

Reuters
Posted at Dec 23 11:07 AM

Peru surpassed 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, health officials said on Tuesday, as concerns about a potential second wave of infections began to grow in the hard-hit Andean nation. Read more »

Peru suspends clinical trials of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 12 09:15 PM

Peru has temporarily suspended clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers. Read more »

Crisis-hit Peru names third president in a week

Marco Aquino, Reuters
Posted at Nov 17 11:02 AM

Peru's Congress on Monday chose legislator Francisco Sagasti as the Andean country's caretaker president, in an attempt to defuse a sharp political crisis after angry protests and the departure of two presidents in the past week. Read more »

Peru's Congress votes to impeach president: official

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 10 09:14 AM

Peru's Congress voted Monday to impeach President Martin Vizcarra over allegations he took kickbacks from developers while a regional governor. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: October 21, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 22 12:15 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

2,000-year-old na drawing ng pusa, nadiskubre sa Peru

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 21 05:52 PM

May sukat na 37 meters o mahigit 120 feet ang drawing ng pusa na nasa isang burol.  Read more »

2,000 year-old cat etching discovered in Nazca hillside

Peruvian Ministry of Culture / AFP
Posted at Oct 21 08:34 AM

Undated handout picture released by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, showing a giant cat figure etched into a slope at the UNESCO world heritage site in the desert near the town of Nazca in southern Peru, after the area was discovered and cleaned by archaeologists.  Read more »

2,000-year-old cat etching found at Nazca lines site in Peru

Tiffany May, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 20 12:55 AM

The image, stretching for 40 yards on a hillside in Peru, shows a creature with pointy ears, orb-like eyes and a long striped tail. It appears to be a cat lounging, as cats often do.   Read more »

Football: Neymar hat-trick fires Brazil past Peru, Argentina labor

Barnaby CHESTERMAN, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 04:43 PM

Neymar scored a hat-trick to become the second highest scorer in Brazil's history as the Copa America champions won 4-2 away to 10-man Peru in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Read more »

Machu Picchu opens for single Japanese tourist after almost 7-month wait

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 13 08:54 AM

LIMA - Peru opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Latin America to bear worst impact from coronavirus: World Bank

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 05:30 AM

WASHINGTON - Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer the worst economic and health impact from the coronavirus, the World Bank said Friday, forecasting a nearly 8.0 percent drop in regional GDP. Read more »

Coronavirus bites back in Europe as Latin America tops 250,000 deaths

Mariëtte Le Roux and Jan Hennop in Rome, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 21 09:35 AM

PARIS, France - Global health authorities said Thursday European countries should be able to ride out a surge in coronavirus cases without reimposing full lockdowns, as the World Bank warned the crisis could push 100 million people into extreme poverty. Read more »

Peru reimposes Sunday curfews to stop virus spike

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 13 08:25 AM

LIMA - Peru will re-impose a ban on people leaving their homes on Sundays and outlaw family parties in an effort to curb its resurgent coronavirus outbreak, President Martin Vizcarra said Wednesday. Read more »

Machu Picchu to reopen at 50% capacity, but no date set

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 08:23 AM

Peru's iconic tourist attraction Machu Picchu will reopen at half capacity following a coronavirus-forced closure, the Peruvian government said on Tuesday, although it didn't set a date. Read more »

Peru records more than 10,000 coronavirus deaths

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 03 06:38 AM

LIMA - Peru surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, the health ministry said, a day after the government began easing a national lockdown in a bid to revive the economy. Read more »

Peru's coronavirus deaths surge past 7,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 17 11:58 AM

LIMA - Peru's health ministry said Tuesday that the hard-hit nation's coronavirus death toll had reached 7,056, the third-highest in Latin America after Brazil and Mexico. Read more »

Peru GDP plummets 40 percent due to coronavirus

Luis Jaime Cisneros, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 16 07:56 AM

Peru, one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic, has seen GDP plummet by more than 40 percent year on year in April, the government said Monday. Read more »

Machu Picchu to sharply limit visits after July reopening in Peru

Carlos Mandujano, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 07:24 AM

LIMA, Peru - The ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian tourism, will sharply reduce the number of daily visitors once it reopens from a virus-imposed closure in July, officials said. Read more »

Peru surpasses 200,000 coronavirus infections: health ministry

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 10 06:24 AM

LIMA - Peru emerged as a global COVID-19 hotspot on Tuesday as the health ministry registered more than 200,000 cases, ranking the South American country as the eighth-highest in the world by number of infections. Read more »