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May 8, 2025
International
World

Peruvian journalist gunned down by hitmen in Amazon

Representative Image (AI) Peruvian journalist Raul Celis Lopez has been shot in the head by two unidentified men on a motorbike as he was heading to work in Iquitos by motorbike taxi on Wednesday.Lopez had reported from Iquitos, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, for more than three decades.The 70-year-old radio host had regularly discussed corruption […]

April 14, 2025
International
World

Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa dies at 89 in Lima; ‘He enjoyed a long, adventurous and fruitful life,’ family says in tribute

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in Latin American literature and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at the age of 89. His death was confirmed in a statement shared on social media by his son Álvaro Vargas Llosa.“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our […]