Peru launches campaign "Cusco at half-price" - Living in Peru
The regional President of Cusco, Hugo González Sayán, announced a half-price campaign , that will offer air fares, hotels and restaurants at half their normal rates to Peruvian tourists. The campaign is intended to sustain and boost the domestic ...
Peru: Some US $50 million to be invested in Lima Airport - Living in Peru
Lima Airport Partners (LAP) General Manager, Jaime Daly, said that some US $ 50 million will be invested this year in the improvement of infrastructure and operations of Jorge Chavez International Airport. “The investments will be addressed to ...
Pan American Silver Announces Release Date for 2009 Unaudited Fourth ... - Market Wire
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 2, 2010) - Pan American Silver Corp ... The Company currently has eight silver mining operations in Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia.
Narrow escape from Peru for locals - Edmonton Journal
Two Edmonton residents caught in mudslides and violent floods while on a vacation in the jungles of Peru expect to leave the country today. Exhausted but alive, Daryl Buchanan and Nakita Haining were in the city of Cuzco Saturday night, roughly 50 ...
U.N. helps alpaca farmers in Peru - United Press International
... Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Emergency veterinary kits are being sent to the mountains of Peru to help alpaca ... The farmers' survival depends on their survival. The U.N. is sending emergency veterinary kits to the region to treat young alpacas for ...
Century Mining says strike by workers at San Juan Gold Mine in Peru ... - Stockhouse
... said Tuesday that workers at its San Juan Gold Mine in Peru have gone on an illegal strike. Shares in Century Mining closed down two cents at 29.5 cents in trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company said the Ministry of Work in Peru will ...
Ex-mayor absolved in journalist's slaying in Peru - Omaha World-Herald
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A Peruvian court on Monday absolved the former mayor of a jungle city in the 2004 killing of a reporter who accused him of cocaine trafficking. The Lima court ruled there was contradictory testimony and insufficient evidence to ...
2 hurt in snowmobile crash - Rutland Herald
A snowmobile sliding off a trail in Mount Tabor crashed into a tree on Sunday afternoon, sending a New Jersey woman to the hospital, authorities said Monday. Kelly Ann Glowacki, 22, of Sussex, N.J., was listed in critical condition Monday morning ...
Why are Galapagos sea lions moving to Peru? - The Christian Science Monitor
A colony of about 30 sea lions from Charles Darwin's old stomping ground recently migrated 1,000 miles southeast to the northern coast of Peru, the Lima-based Organization for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals (ORCA) recently announced ...
Ex-mayor absolved in journalist’s slaying in Peru - WHEC TV-10
... and insufficient evidence to convict Luis Valdez Villacorta, the former mayor of Coronel Portillo, the Amazon region containing the city of Pucallpa. Valdez was accused of ordering the killing of Alberto Rivera ... daughter, Patricia Rivera,
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Mexico arrests 2 reputed leaders of drug gang
Mexican authorities on Monday arrested two suspected leaders of a brutal drug trafficking gang that terrorized the border city of Tijuana for several years, a U.S. official said.
World Blog: Did 'pandering' cost U.S. lives at Afghan base?
Why did eight American soldiers die defending an remote outpost the U.S. military no longer wanted to hold? NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Kabul.
NATO: Afghans to play big role in offensive
 Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police will join U.S. and NATO troops in an offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the Afghan war.
Spring rains threaten Haitian survivors
 In Haiti's devastated capital city, early spring rains threaten to cause landslides and bring about health problems in the makeshift camps where more than 500,000 people are living.
Haiti awash in Christian aid, evangelism
 The drama on the sidelines of Haiti's earthquake, in which 10 American missionaries were arrested trying to take children out of the country, was a fiasco waiting to happen. By Kari Huus.
N. Korea’s Kim reiterates disarmament pledge
China's Xinhua News Agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has reiterated his country's promise to achieve a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons
 Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue.
Recovery effort revives China’s quake zone
 China is showing off the results of its massive drive to rebuild its own quake zone 22 months after a 7.9-magnitude temblor struck and devastated the region and left at least 90,000 dead.
Afghan avalanches kill at least 28, strand 1,500
 Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
Report: Iran begins controversial nuke process
 Iran's state TV said the country started enriching its uranium to a higher level of 20 percent, over the objections of the international community.
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