Peruvians vote against mine plan
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Plans for a huge mine in northern Peru are rejected in a referendum amid fears for the environment.
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The Bush administration is banning land mines that cannot be located with metal detectors, a move designed to set an example to other nations and to protect mine hunters.
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A federal agency's decision not to renew a mining permit for a rock quarry near Las Cruces will better protect a repository of pre-dinosaur era fossil tracks.
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Congress overwhelmingly voted to ratify a free trade pact with the United States early Wednesday, rejecting claims the treaty will hurt Peru&#039;s farmers by flooding the Andean nation with subsidized cotton, rice, corn and potatoes.
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LIMA, Peru  - The Peruvian government on Sunday  denied planning an imminent offensive after urging residents  living near a captured police station in the southern Andes to  leave their homes.
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A Chilean judge Wednesday rejected Lima&#39;s request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to Peru, where he faces corruption and human rights charges.
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Residents near Peru's southern highland tourist destinations are fighting two government proposals to expand private development around Machu Picchu and other historical sites, including the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco.
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Peru will not abide by an international human rights court ruling supporting the release of Lori Berenson, a New York woman imprisoned for collaborating with Marxist guerrillas, the country's foreign minister said, according to news reports Saturday.
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Facing opposition to his proposed trade deals with Peru, Panama and Colombia, the president is campaigning hard to win approval of the deals, which he says will weaken Mr. ChÃ¡vez.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian police and troops on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station in a southern  Andean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demanding  the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo.
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By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 17--Even as the project to ship water from Nacimiento Lake to homes and businesses in the North County and San Luis Obispo is nearing construction, some property owners are resisting plans to lay the pipeline across their land.
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The leader of an armed nationalist group that violently seized a remote Peruvian police station, taking 10 officers hostage and allegedly killing four others, said Monday the group would not turn over its weapons as promised because the government violated the terms of surrender.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group which took over a  police station in southern Peru and killed four officers to  demand the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo  will not surrender on Monday as planned, its leader said.
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Bangladesh has bowed to demands from protestors to cancel a 734 million pound (1.4-billion dollar) plan by British firm Asia Energy to build an open-pit coal mine, a minister has said.
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Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, has appealed a government directive requiring it to hire hundreds of non-union workers on a permanent basis, the El Mercurio newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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A Chilean judge rules that Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru.
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Highland Council tenants vote against transferring ownership of  14,500 homes to a housing association.