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The young chess player Daysi Cori confirmed that she is the best in her category worldwide after winning the U-16 World Chess Championship, currently taking place in the town of Kemer, Turkey.

Daysi beat Georgian Mariam Danelia and added 9.5 points in the table, taking a lead of 1.5 points to its closest competitor (Meri Arabidze) and took the title.

"I'm very, very happy, very happy. In the last world championships I have not had the opportunity to reach the top. I only would see how the Europeans won and sang their national anthems. Now I'll be amongst them," she said in a telephone conversation with El Comercio.

Daysi still has an scheduled game for tomorrow against Nazi Paikidze (Georgia) but even is she loses the game she will still be the champion. However she wants to stay undefeated: "Anyway I'll go to win my last game," he said.

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Peruvian player Jefferson Farfán scored a goal once again after five games to help Schalke 04 defeat Hannover 2-0 at rond 13 of the Bundesliga, putting Gelsenkirchen team one point behind the leaders of the German ligue.

Farfan got into the area at minute 69 and hit the ball with the head from a Rafinha assistance. In injury time Czech teammate Jan MOravek, who replaced Farfan, got the second goal for Schalke to seal the game 2-0.

The other Peruvian player in the team, Carlos Zambrano, didn't play due to a suspension.

With this result, Schalke reached 25 points and is one behind Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen, Bundesliga leaders.

This game was the hardest in this round, because Robert Enke, who commited suicide recently, played at Hannover.

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Some 53 civilians and 17 policemen were injured during some clashes Abancay (Apurimac), whose population is observing an indefinite strike that is lasting 12 days at present, according to Coordinadora Nacional de Radio.

The riots started around 6pm when a crowd of demonstrators, mostly students, tried to take the building of the Apurimac Regional Government.

Carlos Medel, head of the 16th Territorial Police Directorate (DIRTEPOL) said that fatalities have not been reported.

Medel also denied the versions indicating that 20 persons are missing, arguing that the police officers used only tear gas and pellets to disperse the crowd.

Abancay EsSalud hospital reported 15 injured (one of them by gun) wounded, while the Public Health Sector Hospital has reported 38 in, four of which have gun shots injuries.

The incidents occurred despite the fact that the regional council, reunited in Curahuasi, agreed to reformulate the 2010 budget.

Some leaders warned that they will not stop until they the regional president David Salazar resigns to the charge.

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Our genious chess player Deysi Cori (ELO 2374) continues her path to the Under-16 title at Chess Young World Championship.

She defeated Ucranian Yuliya Shvayger, to reach 8.5 points in nine games played in Turkey.

If she wins today, we will have a new world champion.

Yesterday victory was very important for Deysi because it came along with a draw between Azerbaijan Qizi Nizami y la Georgian Meri Arabidze, and are now 1.5 points behind Cori.

She may be crowned world champion if she defeats Georgian Mariam Danelia, also with 7 points. Even more, Cori could win the title with a draw if Nizami and Arabidze don't win today.

Deysi, 2008 Under-15 Schoolgirl World Champion, is unbeaten at Turkey with eight wins and one draw.

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Peruvian band "Emergency Blanket" is taking part successfully at British contest People's Music Awards, and is being praised by the jurors, who are asking music bussinessmen to bet on the national band.

Reportedly the jury consider they have an innate talent and they are going to be a successful band

Emergency Blanket's most known themes are "Rusted" and Warkaman Te Quechua.

Recognized Mick Glossop said "all is in the right place in this group, I give them a perfect qualification in all items to evaluate. They have a powerful energy and listening to them is a pleasure for every good music lover".

Engineer Tony Platt, who participated in the best works of groups like Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin, said he is surprised on Emergency Blanket's ability for composition, and closed his comments asking European companies to hire them.

Moreover, the performance of this Peruvian group is making more than one bussinessman is looking with interest the national market as a source of new musical talents for the industry.

"It's very interesting to to see a latino group, and even more a Peruvian one, had arrived to this fase of the contest. Emergency Blanket show there is potential on them, and passion for rock is everywhere," added the contest organizers

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This week many Peruvians, as well as the international community, were in shock over allegations that a criminal gang killed people - perhaps as many as 60 – to extract the fat from their bodies to sell it to companies that make cosmetics.

However, many people are expressing doubts on this horror story, especially Peruvian citizens over 40, who have seen the “pishtaco” Andean myth jump to the Peruvian press headlines every few years during all their lives.

In the mythology of Andean cultures, a “pishtaco” (or nakaq) is a devil that kills people to steal their body fat, which was allegedly very highly priced many years ago for cosmetics and medicinal uses.

Serapio Veramendi and some other accomplices were arrested this week after a routine police raid on buses travelling from the provinces to Lima found lemonade bottles filled with fat, that later laboratory tests proved to be human.

According to police reports, Veramendi explained that those were “sample material,” and that the band had collected 17 litres of fat, expecting to sell it to cosmetics firms for 15,000 dollars per litre.

While investigations continue, people like Peruvian Medical Association dean Julio Castro Gomez remain unconvinced of the story, noting that plastic surgery clinics obtain large amounts of fat in liposuction procedures and discard it because there is no market for it.

Also many Peruvians remember that stories like this one, or like the ones related to Virgin Mary images that allegedly do cry miraculous tears, as well as other urban legends, tend to appear on local press during in times when the Governments are facing difficulties.

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Metal Suimitomo will purchase two mining rights in Peru's South, with the authorization of Peru's Armed Forces General Command, that was issued last July.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) authorized Company Sumitomo Metal Mining Peru to purchase two mining rights located within 50 miles of the southern border of Peru, in the region of Tacna.

Sumitomo's request is included in the course of public necessity provisions of the Constitution of Peru, as the interest in establishing the ownership of those areas transcends private interest, significantly impacting on the welfare of the community.

This exemption aims to achieve the development of border areas, thus increasing the standard of living in the surrounding areas.

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President Alan Garcia enacted today the law which makes Peru one of the signatories of The Hague Apostille, a legal instrument which eliminates the requirement of diplomatic or consular legalization for public documents presented by Peruvian citizens when traveling abroad.

Thus, the only formality required to certify the authenticity of a signature on a document will be the presence of The Hague Apostille, a special stamp on a document that certifies the authenticity of a signature.

The documents issued in a country that is a signatory of this international agreement, and that have been certified by The Hague Apostille must be recognized in any other country without other authentication, saving time and money to users.

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Peru and the Czech Republic government signed today some agreements on investments, drug trafficking issues, and cooperation in culture, education, science and sports.

Both governments commited to do an intensive work in controlling the drug trade.

The signing countries also agreed to exchange information on the development of policies to attract investments.

Both governments will work in cooperation for mutual understanding between peoples, and in order to bring culture, education, science and sport through several activities between 2010 and 2012.

The signing of these agreements took place with the presence of the presidents of both countries, Alan Garcia and Vaclav Klaus, who is currently on an official visit to Peru.

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The 380-page dossier that summarizes the findings of the investigation on the espionage case that Peru sent to Chile is being revised by Chile's Foreign Ministry since last Thursday, when this process officially started with a meeting which was attended by the Chilean Ambassador to Peru, Fabio Vio.

It is expected that Chile will issue an official statement on November 23rd or 24th, according to the Chilean newspaper La Tercera.

"The Chilean government's decision, however, is to just revise the case, and not to start an investigation, as Peru has requested,” says the newspaper, pointing out at the fact that Peru “has not sent any of the encrypted texts that the police seized from the computer of the spy."

"Chile will review these documents very seriously,” said the spokeswoman for Chilean's Executive, Carolina Toha.

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