News - Callao
By LESLIE JOSEPHS By Leslie Josephs The Associated Press LIMA, Peru A powerful earthquake shook Peru's coast near the capital Wednesday, toppling some buildings and killing at least 15 people. Authorities said the quake generated a tsunami but it wasn't destructive.
Global marine terminal operator DP World has announced that it has been granted a 30-year concession to develop and operate a new container terminal in the southern zone of the Port of Callao, Peru.
By Patricia Zengerle CALLAO, Peru (Reuters) - Lourdes Flores is struggling to convince Peru's poor that she is their candidate, and not just the favorite of investors, as the conservative seeks to become the country's first woman president.
CALLAO, Peru - A Panamanian ship collided with two other vessels near the Peruvian port of Callao Friday, splitting in two and leaving one sailor missing, officials said. Twenty-two crew members from the Panamanian ship were rescued, said Roberto Colombo, general manager of Peru's ports agency.
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Peru will restart the trial of imprisoned Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman, who led one of Latin America's most brutal insurgencies in the 1980s and early 1990s, after proceedings broke down last year, a judge said on Friday. "The trial will begin at 1000 a.m.
