Jack Ma, a Chinese web entrepreneur sometimes called his country`s `Bill Gates`, was Wednesday jeered by angry Peruvian textile workers who saw him as the negative personification of a China-Peru free trade agreement.

LIMA, Oct 14, 2007 (AFP) - Twenty-two people were killed and more than 15 injured Sunday after a bus traveling in an Andean region of central Peru veered off a steep precipice, police reported.

The accident occurred on narrow, icy roads between the mining town of Morococha and La Oroya when the overcrowded bus that was carrying at least 40 passengers sharply veered to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, officials said.

LIMA, Oct 14, 2007 (AFP) - Twenty-two people were killed and more than 15 injured Sunday after a bus traveling in an Andean region of central Peru veered off a steep precipice, police reported.

The accident occurred on narrow, icy roads between the mining town of Morococha and La Oroya when the overcrowded bus that was carrying at least 40 passengers sharply veered to avoid a collision with an oncoming vehicle, officials said.

TOKYO, Oct 13, 2007 (AFP) - Two Japanese mining firms will invest up to 1.7 billion dollars in jointly developing copper production bases in Peru and Chile to secure supplies amid growing demand worldwide, a report said Saturday.

Nippon Mining and Metals Co. and Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. plan to build the facilities by 2011 to produce up to 250,000 tonnes of copper ore a year, the leading business newspaper Nikkei reported.

The project will be undertaken by Pan Pacific Copper Co., a joint copper smelting venture set up by the two firms last year.

WASHINGTON, Oct 10, 2007 (AFP) - As Peru prepares to try former president Alberto Fujimori for the abuses meted out under his rule, prosecutors face a familiar dilemma: how to ensure justice is properly served on all sides.

Past trials of presidents such as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic, though rare, provide important clues on the problems and pitfalls inherent in such tribunals.

WASHINGTON, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday urged the US Congress to pass free trade deals with Peru, Colombia and Panama, warning that non-approval would be seen as a US 'withdrawal.'

Failure to pass the bilateral deals 'would be a great blow to those countries. It would be a retreat,' she told reporters at the Organization of American States.

LIMA, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates discussed the fight against drug-trafficking with Peru's President Alan Garcia, a Peruvian minister said, during Gates's first tour of Latin America since taking office.

Peru's Defense Minister Allan Wagner said Gates and the president discussed 'several specific cases of possible cooperation regarding the fight against certain common dangers, such as drug trafficking.'

LIMA, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - Former president Alberto Fujimori will face a total of four trials in Peru following his extradition from Chile on charges of corruption and human rights abuses, a judge announced Friday.

The decision, announced by a special judiciary chamber, represent a streamlining of earlier plans to submit Fujimori, who ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000, to six judicial proceedings.

LIMA, Oct 5, 2007 (AFP) - US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates landed in Lima on Friday for a day-long visit with top Peruvian officials after previously stops in Chile, Colombia and El Salvador.

Gates is scheduled to meet President Alan Garcia, Defense Minister Allan Wagner and other top military officials for talks on security, Peruvian sources said.

Gates kicked off his five-nation tour of Latin America with a stop on Monday in the Salvadoran capital San Salvador. Subsequent stops were unannounced.

LIMA, Sept 28, 2007 (AFP) - More than 1,000 supporters of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori squared off with riot police late Thursday demanding his release after he was extradited from Chile and jailed pending corruption and human rights abuses trials.

'We are never going to let them touch (him); if that happens, we are going to have to fight with thenm in the streets,' warned Kenji Gerardo Fujimori, the youngest son of the ex-president, flanked by his sisters, lawmaker Keiko Sofia Fujimori and Sachi Marcela Fujimori.

LIMA, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - Alberto Fujimori, 69, faces six separate trials on charges of human rights abuses and corruption, officials said on Monday, two days after the former Peruvian president was extradited from Chile and jailed.

The complex legal proceedings against the former strongman, who is accused of responsibility in death squad massacres and misuse of millions of dollars in public funds, could last for months, or even years, the officials said.

LIMA, Sept 24, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori is being subjected to 'terrible mistreatment' in jail, his daughter alleged Monday, two days after her father was extradited home from Chile to face trial for human rights abuses.

'On the one hand, his transfer went smoothly, but he is being terribly mistreated; it is the government's hypocrisy, I don't have any doubt that the government is behind the mistreatment,' Keiko Fujimori told RPP radio.

LIMA, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - Former president Alberto Fujimori, forced back to Peru to face justice over alleged massacres by death squads, finds a changed country in which his supporters are disenchanted and divided.

Following his extradition from Chile, Fujimori was back in Lima Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and responsibility for the killings during his 1990-2000 rule, when his government fought off Maoist Shining Path rebels.

TOKYO, Sept 23, 2007 (AFP) - Japan has remained tight-lipped about the extradition of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese citizen whom Tokyo refused to hand over to Peru during his years of exile here.

Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura indicated that Japan would not get involved in the fate of the former Peruvian strongman, who failed in his bid for a seat in the Japanese parliament in July.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Seven years after fleeing Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori was back in Lima Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and responsibility in death squad massacres during his rule.

Fujimori, 69, was immediately flown by helicopter to a temporary detention facility at the Special Police Operations Directorate (DIREOS) after landing in Lima following his extradition from Chile.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Seven years after fleeing Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori arrived in Lima Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and responsibility in death squad massacres during his rule.

Fujimori had resigned by fax from a Tokyo hotel in 2000 after a 10-year presidency that ended with a corruption scandal and was followed by the Peruvian government's bid to extradite him to face charges including human rights abuse.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori touched down in Lima Saturday after being extradited from Chile to face trial on charges of corruption and massacres by death squads during his rule.

The Peruvian police airplane carrying Fujimori arrived at a military airport south of the capital around 4:40 pm (2140 GMT), an AFP journalist at the scene said, seven years after the ex-leader fled the country amid a government corruption scandal.

LIMA, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori arrived in Tacna in southern Peru on Saturday after he was extradited from Chile to stand trial on charges of corruption and killings by death squads under his rule, according to state television.

The Peruvian police jet carrying Fujimori was making a stop in Tacna before heading to the capital Lima after Chile's Supreme Court on Friday ordered his extradition. It was Fujimori's first trip to his home country after seven years in exile.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was extradited from Chile on Saturday and bound for Lima to face trial on charges of corruption and massacres by death squads during his rule.

Television footage showed Fujimori boarding a Peruvian police jet under tight security at the Santiago airport to return to his home country after seven years in exile following his 1990-2000 rule.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori flew out of Santiago on Saturday for Lima after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to stand trial in Peru on human rights and corruption charges.

Escorted by Chilean police, Fujimori boarded a Peruvian police jet at the Santiago airport bound for Lima, where he will be tried for charges stemming from his 1990-2000 tenure as president.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori flew out of Santiago on Saturday for Lima after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to stand trial in Peru on human rights and corruption charges.

Escorted by Chilean police, Fujimori boarded a Peruvian police jet at the Santiago airport to be carried to Lima, where he will be tried for charges stemming from his 1990-2000 tenure as president.

SANTIAGO, Sept 22, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was expected to be extradited from Chile to Peru on Saturday to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.

A Peruvian police airplane flew out of the border city of Tacna late Friday on its way to Santiago to pick up Fujimori hours after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition.

It was expected to return to Peru with the former president by about midday on Saturday.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori awaited Friday to be extradited from Chile to Peru to face trial on charges of corruption and the killing of 25 people by death squads during his rule.

A Peruvian police airplane flew out of the border city of Tacna late Friday on its way to Santiago to pick up Fujimori hours after Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, 69, lost a long legal battle Friday as Chile's Supreme Court ordered his extradition to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights abuses.

The decision, which cannot be appealed, will send Fujimori back to his home country after seven years in exile to stand trial over alleged massacres and rampant graft during his 1990-2000 rule.

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's supreme court decided to extradite Alberto Fujimori Friday on seven charges of human rights violations and corruption when he was president of Peru between 1990 and 2000.

The following are the charges:

-- Fujimori is accused of responsibility in 1991 and 1992 death-squad killings in Lima that left 25 people dead

-- Fujimori is accused of having ordered, known about and allowed the kidnapping and torturing of people considered opponents of his government

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was ordered back to his home country Friday to face charges of corruption and human rights abuses, seven years after he fled the South American country. The following is a chronology of events leading to his extradition from Chile.

- Nov. 19, 2000: Fujimori flees to Japan, sends a fax to the Peruvian Congress presenting his resignation as president.

- Dec. 12, 2000: The Japanese government announces Fujimori holds Japanese nationality and as such cannot be extradited.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who lost a battle against extradition from Chile Friday, would be sent back to Peru by land and air in 'a few hours,' a senior police official said.

Police official Rene Castellon told a press conference they only needed the papers from the foreign ministry to proceed with Fujimori's extradition 'and that is probably going to happen in a few hours.'

LIMA, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Peru said Friday that ex-president Alberto Fujimori would be treated correctly and receive a fair trial after Chile's high court ordered his extradition to Peru to face charges of rights abuses and corruption.

'The next step is to bring him to Lima and to offer guarantees of a fair trial,' Foreign Minister Jose Garcia Belaunde told CPN radio.

He said that the Chilean Supreme Court, which ordered Fujimori's extradition Friday, had carried out its work with 'responsibility, seriousness and independence.'

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to face charges for corruption and human rights abuses during his 1990-2000 rule, Chile's Supreme Court announced Friday.

'We have awarded the extradition,' announced judge Alberto Chaigneau, adding that the court's decision was based on the weight of two charges of alleged human rights violations and six of corruption.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - The decision by Chile's Supreme Court to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori back to his home country to face trial for human rights abuses is unprecedented, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

'This is the first time that a court has ordered the extradition of a former head of state to be tried for gross human rights violations in his home country,' the US-based organization said in a statement after the court released its decision Friday.

LIMA, Peru, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Alberto Fujimori, who defied the odds to rise from obscurity to become Peru's president before fleeing the country amid tales of military executions and corruption, finally ran out of options Friday.

Chile's Supreme Court ordered the 69-year-old should be extradited to Peru to face charges including murder and corruption dating from his 1990-2000 presidency.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will accept Chile's high court decision to have him extradited to Peru to face charges on human rights abuses and corruption, his lawyer said Friday.

'We will respect the decision of Chilean justice,' said defense lawyer Gabriel Zaliasnik after the Chilean Supreme Court delivered a final ruling approving Fujimori's extradition to Peru to stand trial.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru after Chile's Supreme Court made a final, unappealable ruling on Lima's petition, a judicial source said Friday.

Fujimori has been fighting for two years to block his extradition from Chile to face charges in Peru over human rights abuses while he was the country's president from 1990 to 2000.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court was set to announce Friday whether former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to stand trial over human rights crimes during his 1990-2000 rule.

A ruling in Peru's favor would send Fujimori, 69, back to his home country to face a series of charges seven years after he fled to Japan and resigned amid a corruption scandal.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, was expected early Friday, said court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida.

SANTIAGO, Sept 21, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court was set to announce Friday whether former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will be extradited to Peru to stand trial for human rights crimes under his watch as president from 1990-2000.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, was expected early Friday, said court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida.

SANTIAGO, Sept 20, 2007 (AFP) - Chile's Supreme Court will announce a final decision on whether to extradite Alberto Fujimori to Peru early Friday, court spokesman Cristian Fuenzalida said Thursday.

The court's judgment, which cannot be appealed, will determine whether Fujimori be sent to Peru to stand trial over alleged human rights crimes while he was president from 1990-2000.

LIMA, Sept 18, 2007 (AFP) - Scientists on Tuesday investigated a deep crater created by a meteorite strike in southeastern Peru that left 200 villagers sick from powerful fumes emanating from the crash site.

Scores of residents of the farming village of Carancas began vomiting and complaining of headaches and dizziness after the space object struck the area Saturday, creating an eight-meter (26-foot) deep, 20-meter (65-foot) wide crater.

Seven police officers who went to crater were given oxygen taken to hospital after suffering from similar symptoms.