The prime minister of Peru, Gustavo Adrianzén, has resigned hours before he was due to face a no-confidence vote in Congress. Members of Peru's Congress had called for the no-confidence vote after the recent kidnap and killing of 13 mine workers, which shocked the country.

Peruvian Ministry of Culture condemned the act of vandalism, calling it a 'serious insult to our history and cultural heritage'.

Spanish telecom company Telefonica said on Wednesday it booked a net loss of 1.3 billion euros ($1.45 billion) in the first quarter after it wrote down the value of the units it sold in Peru and Argentina.

Adrianzen was the most trusted ally of woefully unpopular President Dina Boluarte, whose government is accused of failing to tackle a wave of killings linked to extortion gangs.

Víctor Zanabria, the commander-in-chief of Peru’s National Police, was accused of protecting informal miners when he was the regional chief of police in Arequipa in testimony given to prosecutors, Peruvian news program Panorama reported on May 11.

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish telecom company Telefonica reported a first-quarter net loss of 1.3 billion euros ($1.45 billion) on Wednesday, in line with estimates, after writing down the value of assets it has sold in Peru and Argentina.

A vandal has daubed an image of a penis on a wall at a centuries-old Peruvian city recognised by Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The man was filmed while spraying the graffiti on one of the original walls of Chan Chan, a pre-Columbian city 500km (300 miles) north of Lima that is visited by thousands of people a month.

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Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Tuesday shook up her cabinet, again swapping out the Andean nation's economy minister after just a few months.