A Peruvian car is destroyed and its driver is killed by a landmine in northern Chile after crossing the border illegally.

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Chile mine destroys Peruvian car

A bid by some former Shining Path guerrillas to form a political party stirred emotions and reopened a bitter national debate on the war and how to move on.

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Peru Confronts Wounds of Civil War

Doubts over Peru’s strategy against Shining Path rebels

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Peru faces rethink in fight against rebels

Peru’s interior and defence ministers resign in the face of criticism over a failed operation against Shining Path rebels.

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Peru ministers quit over clashes

A fire at a drug rehabilitation centre east of the Peruvian capital Lima has killed 14 people, firefighters say, the second such tragedy this year.

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Peru drug clinic blaze kills 14

After battling government forces, a Maoist guerrilla group in Peru has released 36 hostages it captured earlier this week, state media reported Saturday.

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Report: Peru guerillas free 36 hostages

A group of Peruvian gas workers abducted six days ago by rebels has been freed after a military operation, the Peruvian government says.

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Peruvian troops liberate hostages

The authorities in Peru rule out negotiating with Shining Path rebels who kidnapped a group of gas workers in the Cusco region for ransom.

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Peru rules out rebel negotiations

The authorities in Peru rule out negotiating with Shining Path rebels who kidnapped a group of gas workers in the Cusco region for ransom.

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The operation to rescue nine men trapped underground in a mine near the city of Ica in the south of Peru could take days, the government has said.

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Peru mine rescue ‘may take days’

Rescue teams in Peru are trying to free nine mine workers trapped underground by a rockfall at the Cabeza de Negro copper and gold mine in the south of the country.

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VIDEO: Peru miners trapped by rockfall

Rescue crews worked through the night to try to retrieve nine miners who have been trapped below ground in southern Peru for days.

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Rush to reach trapped Peru miners

Young people fighting tuberculosis in Peru

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In pictures: Childhood tuberculosis in Lima

The man suspected of slashing young women’s buttocks as they shopped at Fairfax County shopping malls last year has been arrested in Peru, police said Saturday. Authorities said they did not have any details of the arrest but confirmed that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, 40, was in custody in Peru and that police were “just starting the process of working with federal and international authorities to return him back to Fairfax County,” said Officer Shelley Broderick, a Fairfax County police spokeswoman, in a statement. Read full article > >

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Suspected mall slasher arrested in Peru

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