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UNESCO To List Ceviche, Opera As 'Intangible Heritage'

Dozens of global traditions are candidates for inscription as intangible global heritage by UNESCO this week, ranging from Italian opera singing and Bangladeshi rickshaw art to the Peruvian delicacy of ceviche.

International Business Times

Nine killed and at least 20 injured after armed men attack Poderosa mining company in Peru

Seven people have been arrested

The Independent UK

Peruvian rainforest defender from embattled Kichwa tribe shot dead in river attack

A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers

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Video: Jesus Pinedo gets hero’s welcome in Peru after 2023 PFL Championship win

Now PFL champion, Jesus Pinedo got quite the reception in his arrival to Peru.

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Peru, Pelé and Grimsby: Henry Kissinger and his curious football links

Former US secretary of state visited Peru dressing room before eyebrow-raising 1978 defeat and claimed to have devised tactics that were forerunner of catenaccio

The Guardian - UK

73 pre-Incan mummies, some with 'false heads,' unearthed from Wari Empire in Peru

Several dozen burials from the Wari culture, which prospered in the region before the Inca took over, were unearthed in Peru.

LiveScience

Peruvian President Boluarte Calls AG's Formal Complaint 'Despicable' Amid Social Unrest

Boluarte became the president after Pedro Castillo's ouster last December, which resulted in social unrest and several protests across the country, leading to the death of at least 49 citizens.

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A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case

On a crisp, sunny day high in the Peruvian Andes, two German judges gaze across a mountain lake to the towering white glaciers in the distance. Dark spots are visible on the pristine ice and, in quiet moments, the cold wind carries the sounds of creaking and cracking.

The Conversation

FIA Rally Star winners selected for 2024 JWRC

Jose Caparo (Peru), Taylor Gill (Australia), Romet Jurgenson (Estonia) and Max Smart (South Africa) will receive a fully funded JWRC programme in 2024.

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Peru Loses More Than 50% Of Tropical Glaciers Due To Climate Change

From 2016 to 2020, Peru lost 6% of these high mountain glaciers, adding that many of them have disappeared from the Ancash region.

Latin Times

Lightning superbolt hotspots have one thing in common, study finds

Phenomenon most frequent in north-east Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Altiplano plateau across Peru and Bolivia

The Guardian - UK

Peru lost more than half of its glacier surface in just over half a century, scientists say

Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change

The Independent UK

Messi's Argentina loses 1st match since World Cup title, falling to Uruguay; Colombia beats Brazil

Uruguay beat Argentina 2-0, ending the World Cup champs' unbeaten streak since the Qatar tournament. Brazil lost 2-1 to Colombia, while Bolivia won its first match of the round-robin, beating Peru 2-0. Venezuela and Ecuador drew 0-0, as did Chile and Paraguay. Uruguay leads the 10-team South American qualifying group…

The Hindu

Joshua Van def. Kevin Borjas at UFC 295: Best photos

Check out the best photos from Joshua Van's unanimous decision win over Kevin Borjas at UFC 295 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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The Independent UK

'Extraterrestrials' return to Mexico's congress as journalist presses case for 'non-human beings'

The lower chamber of Mexico’s congress has once again turned to spectacle, giving hours of its time to a controversial character pressing the case for “non-human beings” he said were found in Peru

The Independent UK

Japan's Princess Kako arrives in Peru to mark 150 years of diplomatic relations

Japanese Princess Kako on Friday arrived in Peru on an official visit to commemorate 150 years of diplomatic relations between both countries

Al Jazeera

‘Genocide’, Colombia says as Latin American states condemn Israel over Gaza

Colombia’s president says Israel wants ‘to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over’.

The Independent UK

Natalee Holloway’s confessed killer returns to Peru to serve out sentence in another murder

A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba has been returned from the U.S. to Peru to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman

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A world record in race walking is erased after the course was measured wrong

Peru's Kimberly García thought she had smashed a world record by more than 10 minutes. It turns out the course was almost two miles too short.

The Guardian - UK

‘My mother’s neurosurgeon loved Berghain’: producer Sofia Kourtesis on love, loss and her debut album

The Peruvian artist left her country for Berlin to be comfortable in her sexuality – then family illness took her back. She’s poured the turmoil into one of the year’s best dance albums

The Independent UK

Joran van der Sloot is sent back to Peru after US trial and confession in Holloway killing

A Dutch citizen who recently admitted to killing U.S. student Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005 is being sent back from the United States to Peru where he will serve out a sentence for the killing of a Peruvian woman

The Guardian - UK

‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats

She was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, Lucha Reyes finds a new audience

The Guardian - UK

Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assets

The Independent UK

TikTok star who bragged of jet-setting lifestyle jailed in Peru for drug smuggling

Modou Adams, 25, was found guilty of trying to smuggle cocaine to London

The Guardian - UK

Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last

Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’

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