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New suspect arrested in Israeli murder case

Police in Arequipa took a 33-year-old taxi driver into custody after finding incriminating evidence in his possession linking him to the rape and murder of Tamar Shahak. State penitentiary officials confirmed to Yedioth Aharonoth that police investigators had uncovered an olive-drab backpack seemingly identical to the one Shahak had been carrying in the possession of Manuel Alberto Chavez, a 33-year-old taxi driver from in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa. (Y Net News - click here to read complete article by Beatrice Overland)


Moody's Could Raise Peru's Debt Rating This Year, Leos Says

Moody's Investors Service may raise Peru's foreign-currency debt rating as early as the second half of this year as surging growth enables the Andean country to trim foreign debt, said Moody's sovereign debt analyst Mauro Leos. Peru is growing at the fastest pace in the region as record commodities prices spur investment and consumer spending, Leos said in an interview with Bloomberg Television from New York. (Bloomberg - click here to read complete article by Karla Palomo and Alex Emery)


Getty Exhibition Unites Manuscripts From Peru

Two illuminated manuscripts of extraordinary importance, along with books, prints, maps, watercolors, and photographs that illustrate the history and culture of Peru will be on display in The Marvel and Measure of Peru: Three Centuries of Artists’ Histories, 1550–1880, at the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Center, July 8–October 19, 2008. The richly illustrated manuscripts, written around 1600 by Martin de Murua, a Spanish Mercedarian friar who arrived in Peru in the late 1500s, form the center of this exhibition. (HULIQ - click here to read complete article)


Peruvian president offers condolences to victims of China's deadly quake

Peruvian President Alan Garcia visited the Chinese embassy here on Monday to express his condolences to victims of the massive earthquake that hit China's southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12. After signing the condolence book, Garcia met with Chinese Ambassador Gao Zhengyue to express the sympathies of the Peruvian people. Garcia said that he will summon concerned institutions to send a shipment of humanitarian aid to the disaster-hit region. (Xinhua - click here to read complete article)


Spain, Italy and Netherlands represent 64% of Peru's exports to EU

Peruvian exports to the European Union (EU) reached 1.12 billion dollars in the first quarter of the year, while 64 percent of which were concentrated by Spain, Italy and Netherlands. These percentage are bigger than the 46 percent reported in the same period last year, said the Exporters' Association (Adex) reported. (Fresh Plaza - click here to read complete article)