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World

No let up yet for flood-battered south Brazil

The rains may have abated, but floodwaters on Monday continued their assault on southern Brazil, with hundreds of municipalities in ruins amid fears that...

AFPMay 6, 2024

A resident of a community affected by the Repsol oil spill on the coast of Peru protests against the Spanish oil company, on January 20, 2022 in Callao

Business

Peru sues Spain’s Repsol for $4.5 bn over oil spill

Peru has filed suit against Spanish energy company Repsol over the massive January oil spill that ravaged its coast.

AFPMay 14, 2022

A traditional fisherman affected by the oil spill off Ventanilla in Peru receives food at a soup kitchen near Lima

World

Three months after oil spill, Peru fishermen remain without work

Three months after an oil spill that polluted beaches and killed wildlife in Peru, hundreds of fishermen remain out of work as Easter approaches.

AFPApril 15, 2022

A cormorant is among dozens of oil-tainted birds being treated at a Lima zoo

World

Peru races to save birds threatened by oil spill

A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, left covered in oil after 6,000 barrels of crude spilled off Peru's coast.

AFPJanuary 23, 2022

Workers in protective clothing clean up beaches in the Callao province close to Peru's capital Lima

World

Traditional fishermen in despair over Peru oil spill

Hundreds of traditional fisherman living just outside the Peruvian capital fear their livelihoods are ruined following an oil spill caused by a volcanic eruption...

AFPJanuary 20, 2022