President Ollanta Humala has sworn in a new prime minister and named five other Cabinet ministers in a shuffle that comes amid anti-mining protests and a drop in his popularity. full story ![]()
LIMA (Reuters) - A key Peruvian official tasked with implementing a law to give indigenous groups more rights has resigned to protest efforts by President Ollanta Humala's cabinet to roll back the law to protect mining investments.
reuters.com (15 days ago)
Peru's top police officer resigned late on Wednesday as President Ollanta Humala faced increasing pressure over rising crime in the Andean nation after two high-profile murders.
nytimes.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's mining minister is winning a crucial cabinet battle by swaying President Ollanta Humala to water down a law that gives indigenous groups more say over new mines and oil projects - and a deputy minister will likely resign in protest.
reuters.com (18 days ago)
President Ollanta Humala's approval rating fell 5 points to a six-month low of 46 percent, reflecting the unpopularity of his proposal to buy an oil refinery owned by Spain's Repsol and his support for Venezuela's new government, an Ipsos poll showed on Sunday.
nytimes.com (4 hours ago)
LIMA (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala's approval rating fell 5 points to a six-month low of 46 percent, reflecting the unpopularity of his proposal to buy an oil refinery owned by Spain's Repsol and his support for Venezuela's new government, an Ipsos poll showed on Sunday.
reuters.com (5 hours ago)
LIMA (Reuters) - President Ollanta Humala's approval rating fell 5 points to a six-month low of 46 percent, reflecting the unpopularity of his proposal to buy an oil refinery owned by Spain's Repsol and his support for Venezuela's new government, an Ipsos poll showed on Sunday. The nationwide poll was published by the newspaper El Comercio. Humala abandoned his idea of...
yahoo.com (4 hours ago)
This is the moment that Bulgaria's government finally succumbed to the mounting pressure against it from mass protests across the nation.
palmbeachpost.com (2 months and 29 days ago)
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has put 1,000 extra police officers on the streets of the capital, Lima, following two recent high-profile murders. Last week, a businessman was robbed and shot dead less than a block from the main police station, and on Saturday, Luis Choy, a photojournalist for Peru’s largest newspaper, El Comercio, was gunned down in broad daylight...
ibtimes.com (2 months and 22 days ago)

Prominent photojournalist shot dead in front of his house and businessman robbed and killed in financial district in LimaThe killing of a journalist in broad daylight and a deadly robbery in Lima's financial district has prompted Peru's president, Ollanta Humala, to put 1,000 more police on the streets of the capital.Luis Choy, a prominent photojournalist for El Comercio,...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 24 days ago)

The Nahda party rejects Premier Hamadi Jebali's proposal after the killing of opposition figure Chokri Belaid spurred protests. A labor union calls for a general strike.TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia's Islamist-led government Thursday rejected a proposal by its prime minister to form a new Cabinet amid growing political tension after nationwide protests sparked by the...
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