Former Peruvian president gets 25 years in jail

September 21st, 2009 LIMA - Peruvian families are renting their children as young as three to pornographic filmmakers for a 'nuevo sol' (34 cents), a media report said. "Many families in the interior of country, for example, in the Amazon city of Iquitos, rent out their children for money.

September 8th, 2009 US gives ex-general's money back to PeruMIAMI — The U.S. has returned more than $750,000 to Peru in funds confiscated from the accounts of an ex-Peruvian general convicted of embezzlement and other crimes.

August 2nd, 2009 Peruvian rebels suspected in attack that kills 5LIMA, Peru — Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on a remote police post in a coca-growing region. Police Maj. Quispe Gonzales tells The Associated Press that three more officers were wounded in the raid that ended in the early hours of Sunday.

June 5th, 2009 LIMA - Peruvian drug syndicates dump nearly 15 million litres of harmful chemicals into the rivers in the Amazon region annually, causing large-scale destruction of the fragile ecosystem, an official said. Over two-dozen chemicals, including solvents and acids, are dumped into the rivers after use by the cocaine production laboratories, causing widespread pollution, Lucio Batallanos of the counter-narcotics department said Thursday.

June 5th, 2009 LIMA - At least 29 people, including 22 civilians and seven police officers, were killed Friday in the northern Peruvian region of Amazonas in a police crackdown on indigenous people demanding land rights. Leaders of indigenous communities confirmed the deaths of 22 Indios, which they blamed on the government of Peruvian President Alan Garcia.

June 5th, 2009 Peru says 5 police killed in Amazon protestLIMA, Peru — Peruvian authorities say five police officers have been killed by Indians protesting against oil and gas exploration on their ancestral lands in Peru's Amazon. Indigenous leaders say 15 protesters were killed in the clash in an area called Cruz del Diablo — or "Devil's Cross" — in Utcubamba province.

May 6th, 2009 US citizen Berenson, imprisoned in Peru, has sonLIMA, Peru — The parents of New Yorker Lori Berenson say she has given birth to a baby boy while serving a 20-year sentence in Peru for collaborating with leftist guerrillas in the 1990s. The 39-year-old is married to ex-Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement member Anibal Apari, whom she met in jail.

May 1st, 2009 Peru Indians block jungle airport in land protestLIMA, Peru — Ashaninka and Yines Indians are blocking an airport in the central Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya as well as two stations on a northern oil pipeline to protest laws that they say threaten their ancestral land and resources. Edson Rosales, spokesman for an Indian rights group in the Amazon, says 15,000 Indians have been protesting since April 9 and plan to start taking over oil and gas rigs.

April 30th, 2009 LIMA - Peru suspended from Thursday all flights to and from Mexico over the ongoing flu epidemic, in a decision that Prime Minister Yehude Simon described as 'painful but necessary'. 'We have the right to protect the country,' Simon noted.

March 23rd, 2009 LIMA - A nightmare is coming true for many macho motorists in the Peruvian capital as the entire traffic police force will soon be female. Since surveys show female officers in Lima to be far stricter and - more importantly - less bribable than males, they will be given complete control of the chaotic streets in the city of some 8 million inhabitants, the municipal traffic police announced recently.

March 11th, 2009 BREMEN - Werder Bremen will make no decision on retaining striker Claudio Pizarro until it knows the outcome of an investigation into alleged tax evasion and money laundering involving the player's adviser. Klaus Allofs, the club's sports director, was quoted by Tuesday's local Kreiszeitung Syke newspaper as saying it would await the results of the investigation being conducted by authorities in Peru.

March 3rd, 2009 LIMA - Women appearing to be traffic cops were seen posing half naked in a new video posted on a porn website days after four of their colleagues were suspended for appearing in another erotic recording, Peruvian media reported. According to CPN Radio, the women were inside a traffic-police unit in a district of Lima.

February 27th, 2009 RAIPUR - After being in jail for over 15 years for housebreaking and attempted theft, a man will be set free by authorities who have acknowledged the 'gross injustice' committed in the case. Gayasuddin, from Nagpur in Maharashtra, left his home in September 1993 in search of a job and was arrested here on charges of entering a house, allegedly for theft.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Director Madhur Bhandarkar is quite impressed with Neil Nitin Mukesh's song in 'Aa Dekhein Zaara' and now plans to make the young actor sing one for his 'Jail'. 'I will try that in my film 'Jail', which has Neil.

January 27th, 2009 OTTAWA - A 93-year-old Canadian man was sentenced to two years in jail for sexually abusing his daughters some 50 years ago, a media report said here Tuesday. Philippe Hamelin, who is deaf, nearly blind and suffers from a disease similar to Alzheimers, was allowed to serve his sentence in the community without going to jail, the Canadian Press reported.