Shamans in Peru gathered for an annual New Year's ritual on Monday where they made predictions for the year to come, including illness for U.S. President Donald Trump and the downfall of Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.

A U.S. federal judge declared the state of Peru in default in a court proceeding to enforce a $91 million international arbitral award.

Following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake, there were no immediate reports of major injuries or severe damage to infrastructure.

In late December effigies of officials new and old dangle from market stalls near parliament and the presidential palace in Lima, the capital. Slogans on dummies of Jóse Jerí, the interim president, are particularly rude.

The Central Reserve Bank of Peru says the country has the potential to double copper production in coming years driven by mining project.

Peru has been found in default over a $91 million international arbitration award it hasn’t paid to an airport contractor for over a year, a US federal judge ruled last week.

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. Nunez, a reporter for the digital ...

Ecuador restricted most of its border crossings with Colombia and Peru for "national security reasons," leaving only two international crossings open.

A Peruvian policy that described transgender people as having a mental illness was reversed after backlash in June 2024, a month after it was approved as part of an insurance law.

On a small airplane, José Manuyama, a professor, frowns and shakes his head with anguish while  thousands of feet below, five dredges operated by illegal miners excavate the Nanay River Basin, in the Loreto region in the Peruvian Amazon.