LIMA (Reuters) – A train driver was killed and 40 more people were injured on Tuesday after two trains collided head-on on the railway leading to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, the Andean nation’s…
LIMA — Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot reportedly tried to commit suicide at the notorious Peruvian prison where he is serving 28 years for murdering another woman. The 38-year-old killer was found Saturday hanging from…
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT (Reuters) — Pope Leo urged President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday not to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro using military force. Leo, the first U.S. pope, said it would be better…
LONDON (Fox News) — The British government recently added eight countries to its list of travel warnings related to the risk of methanol poisoning from tainted alcohol. The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has…
An American tourist has died after taking a hallucinogenic herbal tea at a spiritual retreat in the Peruvian Amazon. Aaron Wayne Castranova, 41, died on Monday in Loreto, a region on the border with Brazil, after…
LIMA — A baby fox of an at-risk species wandered into a home in northwestern Peru, prompting rescue efforts and a medical examination. Photos show the small and “opportunistic” animal. The fox cub, identified as…
Here comes ‘Da Pope.’ Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was named today as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are having a blast over it. “From now on, all communion wafers shall…
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels…
LIMA — A Peruvian fisherman who spent 95 days lost at sea in the Pacific Ocean has told how he ate roaches, birds and sea turtles to survive. Máximo Napa Castro, 61, had set off…
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Colombian superstar Shakira canceled her Sunday concert in Lima after being hospitalized with an abdominal condition, the singer said. Shakira shared a statement on her Instagram and X accounts Sunday afternoon,…