A couple from Cork have again appealed for help from the government to have them and about 38 other Irish people brought back to Ireland from Peru.

A number of Irish citizens have been told they will have to pay more than $3,000 for a flight home from Peru.

Peru have reached their first Copa America final since 1975 after beating two-time defending champions Chile 3-0.

At least 13 people - mostly foreign tourists - have been injured after two trains collided in southern Peru.

A young woman from Spain who went missing last year has been rescued from a satanic sect in the Amazon rainforest.

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At least two German tourists have been killed and another 10 injured when their minibus went off the road and fell into a ravine in the Andes mountains, said authorities in Peru.

Peru's congress has voted to accept President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's resignation, paving the way for his replacement by a politician who most voters had never even heard of until recently.

Latest: At least 44 people have been killed after a double-decker bus veered off a road and tumbled 650ft down a cliff in southern Peru.

A fugitive prisoner in Peru has been recaptured 13 months after he walked out of jail and left his twin brother in his place.

A truck driver has been accused of damaging part of the world-renowned Nazca lines in Peru.

Pope Francis has spoken out about violence against women in Latin America describing the violence as "a plague".

Peru’s indigenous leaders have sent a letter to Pope Francis urging him to press for the clean-up of polluted rivers and recognition of ancestral land rights during his visit to the Amazon.

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Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori has been released from the clinic where he has been receiving treatment since leaving jail following his controversial pardon from a 25-year sentence.

At least 48 people were killed in Peru when a bus tumbled down a cliff from a narrow stretch of road known as the Devil's Curve, authorities said

At least 30 people were killed when a bus tumbled down a cliff onto a rocky beach along a narrow stretch of road known as the "Devil's Curve," Peruvian police and fire officials said.

The president of Peru and one of his leading political rivals have appeared before prosecutors investigating payments to politicians by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

The president of Peru and one of his leading political rivals are due to be questioned by prosecutors investigating payments to politicians by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on Monday to protest the pardon granted to former president Alberto Fujimori, with many calling it part of a backroom deal struck to protect the current president from impeachment on corruption charges.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski survived an impeachment vote in congress late on Thursday, thwarting an attempt by opposition politicians to oust him over ties to the Brazilian construction giant implicated in the region's biggest corruption scandal.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has made a forceful plea to Peruvian politicians, insisting that a rushed impeachment proceeding would threaten the nation’s democracy.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski will testify before Peruvian opposition politicians intent on throwing him out of office on Thursday in a sudden impeachment proceeding that threatens to make him the region’s first president to be ousted over the Odebrecht corruption scandal.

Politicians in Peru have initiated impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski over payments a decade ago from a Brazilian company at the heart of Latin America's biggest corruption scandal.

President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said Peru's coastal region has not seen such environmental calamity since 1998.

Muddy water spilled onto streets and into homes in a new round of unusually heavy rains that has killed at least a dozen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital.

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Drugs mule Michaella McCollum has described her fight for release and settling back into life at home as "a long ride".

President Michael D Higgins is to make an historic visit to Cuba next month.

President Barack Obama spoke briefly with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday as an economic summit got under way in Peru.

Peru’s government said its initial investigation into allegations of police death squads has identified nine officers, including a general, who purportedly masterminded the disappearance of at least 20 civilians since 2012.

A shallow magnitude 5.4 earthquake centred in southern Peru's picturesque Colca Valley has killed at least four people, including a tourist, and left 52 injured.

Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum has returned to Ireland.

Tourists in Peru are increasingly combining visits to the famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu with tours to sample the life lived by so many of the country's people - in its slums.

Drugs mule Melissa Reid is set to return to Britain after spending nearly three years in jail in Peru.

A British woman jailed in Peru for drug smuggling is expected to be released later.

The daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori has conceded defeat to conservative economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, ending five days of suspense in which ballots trickled in from Peru's closest presidential election in decades

Drugs mule Melissa Reid is to be released from jail in Peru after authorities agreed to expel her from the country, according to reports.

Drugs mule Melissa Reid is set to return to the UK "very soon" after Peruvian authorities agreed to expel her from the country, according to the British embassy in Peru.

Peru drugs mule Michaella McCollum has been released from prison, her solicitor has confirmed.

A 29-year-old Canadian allegedly stabbed to death a British tourist after the two drank a hallucinogenic brew at an Amazon spiritual retreat in Peru.

At least three people were shot and killed and 17 wounded in a clash between police and highlands farmers protesting against a US$7.4bn Chinese-owned copper mining project in Peru.

A Dublin man fraudulently claimed almost €30,000 in benefits for three years when he was living in Lanzarote, a court has heard; The Garda Commissioner is defending the appointment of her husband to a team investigating alleged leaks of information to journalists; Police in the US are investigating after a two-year-old child was freed from a locked car on a sweltering day. Here’s this evening’s irishexaminer.com round-up.

Peru will try to make contact for the first time with an Amazonian tribe that largely lives isolated in the jungle, part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May.

A truck carrying schoolchildren home from a parade has fallen into a ravine in Peru’s Andes Mountains, killing 17 people and injuring 33, authorities said.

A Junior Cert student and her family are living in a car in Killarney; Northern Ireland is ’on guard’ for an attempt to make a ’united British’ football team; and 17 people, mostly children, have been killed in a Peru bus fall. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.