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Now playing Next no comment Peru bans Repsol execs from leaving country after oil spill A Peruvian judge on Friday banned Repsol's Peru director and three other executives from leaving the country for 18 months while the government investigates an oil spill at a refinery run by the Spain-based company. 29/01/2022
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Now playing Next no comment Peru: cleaning crews work to remove oil from beaches Cleaning crews in Ventanilla, Peru, work to remove oil from a beach after a spill caused by an eruption on the other side of the Pacific near Tonga 23/01/2022
Now playing Next no comment Peru oil spill clean up ongoing after volcano eruption in Pacific Oil, think and deadly, continued to wash up on beaches in Lima, two days after an Italian-flagged ship was loading oil into La Pampilla when strong waves moved the boat and caused the spill. 20/01/2022
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Now playing Next Culture news Peru's Mochica man thrills onlookers with his giant ceramic phallus The statue is three metres tall and has a phallus measuring a whopping 1.5 metres in length. 05/01/2022
Now playing Next Peru Peruvian shamans make predictions for the new year Will they be right or not? The answer will come in the upcoming months. 30/12/2021
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Now playing Next Culture news Terrified looking ancient mummy discovered by archeologists in Peru Archaeologists have found a bizarre looking mummy and a host of other treasures in a tomb seven floors underground. They believe it could date back to pre-Inca times 800 years ago. 30/11/2021
Now playing Next Culture news Mass grave in Peru uncovers remains of those who lived before Columbus Chan Chan was a citadel of the Chimu culture which prospered between the years 900 and 1450 before falling to the Incas. 12/11/2021
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Now playing Next no comment Ancient vicuna shearing tradition lives on in Peruvian Andes At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition: shearing vicunas. 28/08/2021
Now playing Next no comment Peruvian security forces carry out drills ahead of Castillo's swearing-in ceremony Police performs drills in case of attack to foreign delegations ahead of the bicentennial of the Independence of Peru and President-elect Pedro Castillo's swearing-in ceremony 27/07/2021