Pill plan sparks tensions in Peru
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Peru's health minister vows to push on with plans to make emergency contraception available, amid legal threats.
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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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Viewpoint: The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids
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LIMA, Peru  - Peru declared a state of emergency  in the southern Andean town of Andahuaylas on Saturday where an  armed group led by a radical former soldier stormed a police  station and was holding 10 officers hostage.
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KATHMANDU - The blockade of the capital declared by Nepal&#39;s Maoist rebels echoes the tactics of Peru&#39;s shadowy Shining Path militants - the ruthless movement upon which they model themselves.
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Peru's Congress complains to Spanish airline Iberia about alleged discrimination against two indigenous members.
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ESPINAR, Peru  - Two years ago, 2,000 people in this small town in the Peruvian Andes stormed the offices of the Tintaya copper mine, demanding its owners spend more money on social projects and the environment.
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WASHINGTON -- Dozens of poor and minority pregnant women were put at risk when they were given dummy pills instead of a drug believed to prevent outbreaks of genital herpes, consumer watchdogs charged Friday.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group that seized a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo agreed  to surrender on Tuesday, police said.
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Days before Peru&#039;s presidential runoff, the headquarters of the country&#039;s oldest and most disciplined political party is buzzing with furious campaign activity. Come election day, its old-fashioned, spread-the-wealth politics could return Alan Garcia to power.
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A measure to make the morning-after pill available free at state-run hospitals has generated complaints and challenges in the country.
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Peruvian President Alan Garcia has won over skeptical business leaders and investors during his first year in office, but angry street protests show he has failed to meet the demands of the poor.
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The government is considering whether to make morning-after birth control available without a prescription, and like most issues that involve sex and pregnancy, it has generated heated debate.
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Brazil will subsidize birth control pills for the poor, Health Minister Jose Temporao said on Monday, a decision that may stoke a simmering conflict between the state and Catholic Church over contraception and abortion.
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LIMA, Peru  - Rebels who laid siege to a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the president's resignation decided to surrender  their weapons Tuesday, a government statement said.
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Women's rights groups seeking easier  access to emergency contraception are pressuring U.S.  regulators as they try to decide whether to approve a  non-prescription "morning-after" pill.
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Women were warned Wednesday that their risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs may be higher if they use the birth-control patch instead of the pill.