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FUNDAMENTALISTS stormed a mosque near Pakistan 's army headquarters, killing up to 39 worshippers, including six military officers yesterday.

Peru President Alan Garcia speaks during his meeting with former U.S. President George W. Bush in the Oval Office at the White House April 23, 2007 in Washington, D.C. LIMA, Peru a ' Peruvian President Alan Garcia denied Thursday that his government invented a tale about murderous fat-thieves to distract from allegations of police death squad ...

By Terry Wade Lima - Peru suspended its top organised crime investigator on Tuesday after he misled the country by saying he had caught a gang of serial killers who acted out an ancient Andean legend and sold their victims' fat.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 1:12 p.m. LIMA, Peru - Edwin Ortiz was just about to utter "I do," but the mother of his two children and her relatives had a different message: "Oh, no you don't." One moment, the 27-year-old Peruvian was sitting happily in a large wedding hall with 17 other couples, declaring his love for his wife-to-be to TV ...

By Barbara J. Fraser Source: Published: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 LIMA, Peru - World leaders and negotiators participating in this month's U.N. Climate Change Conference must remember that the world's poorest and most vulnerable people will suffer most from environmental factors, church activists say.

Peru's police chief dismissed the head of his criminal investigations unit Tuesday amid suggestions that officers may have invented a story about a murderous gang of human fat thieves, perhaps to distract from allegations of police killings.

A local maternity doctor who died in Sunday's floatplane crash touched countless lives through her work around the world.

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Institute de la Memoria y Desordenes Relacionadas, Lima, Peru and Centre for Public Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK Cleusa P. Ferri, PhD Centre for Public Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, ...

The government of Peru is apologizing to its Afro-Peruvian population for the first time for centuries of abuse, exclusion and discrimination.

Lima apologizes to Afro-Peruvians for abuses Eds: APNewsNow. LIMA, Peru The government of Peru is apologizing to its Afro-Peruvian population for the first time for centuries of abuse, exclusion and discrimination.

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Coming off a large scale mural a little over a week ago in Columbia . BLU has continued his global mural endeavor around South America, taking it to Lima, Peru this time putting up yet another large scale ossuary themed piece.

China's top political adviser Jia Qinglin met here Monday with Peruvian President Alan Garcia, with both sides expressing their wish to elevate bilateral ties to a higher stage.

Greater Toronto Area construction stakeholders are excited by the opportunities that will come from the 2015 Pan Am Games.

CUSCO, Peru-Cusco, the golden city of the Incas, sprawls across the hillsides of the high Andes Mountains.

Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.

L ima is the capital city of Peru, as well as the largest and most important city in the country.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the invitation to join you today in marking the 20th Anniversary of APEC.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics.