A Supreme Court judge convicted Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori of abuse of authority and sentenced him to six years in prison.

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori faces a possible seven-year sentence today in a separate trial on abuse of authority charges, a day after erupting in anger during one of the hearings.

Seven years after fleeing Peru in disgrace, former President Alberto Fujimori goes on trial today on charges of murder and kidnapping.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will go on trial tomorrow on charges of murder and kidnapping during his war against a brutal Maoist insurgency.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights charges, Chile’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a decision that cannot be appealed.

Peru’s former President Valentine Paniagua, who led Peru back to democracy after the collapse of the corruption-ridden regime of Alberto Fujimori, was in intensive care today, prompting a false report of his death by his party leader.

ALAN Garcia staged a remarkable comeback in Peru’s run-off election, beating a fiery nationalist backed by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to regain control of the country 16 years after his first presidential term ended in economic ruin and rebel violence.

A smiling Alberto Fujimori left prison today in Chile where the former Peruvian president is fighting extradition to his homeland on corruption and human rights charges.

POPULIST Ollanto Humala is leading Peru’s presidential race, with conservative Lourdes Flores and ex-president Alan Garcia competing to qualify for a run-off against the front-runner.

UNPOPULAR President Alejandro Toledo has declared a state of emergency across Peru, promising to send out the armed forces to help rein in a wave of violent strikes that has crippled transit and public services in a new challenge to a stormy presidency.

WOODY ALLEN, in one of his early comedy records, tells the joke of what his parents allegedly did when he went missing once as a child: "They snapped into action, and rented out my room."

Peru’s attorney general has filed homicide charges against disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, linking him to two massacres by paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s, a statement said.