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A head-on train crash on the route servicing Machu Picchu in Peru has left one dead and at least 40 injured, including foreign tourists.

Five Australians onboard trains in deadly crash near Machu Picchu

Images taken near Peru’s top tourist site show the badly damaged locomotives – which collided head-on – facing each other and people being treated on the sides of the tracks.

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Nikkei dish from Shizen restaurant in Lima, Peru.

The Peruvian version of sushi is amazingly harmonious

A classic Nikkei dish found across much of Peru is sushi. Though not the Japanese sushi you’re used to.

  • Ben Groundwater
Xiomara, a survivor of sexual abuse, in Huánuco, Peru.

Two of the hardest places on earth to be a woman

Survivor-led networks are ensuring that violence against women is no longer a private burden for victims but a public issue to confront.

  • Julie Kim, Morgan Theakston and Grace Ellis
All the feels… Aji de Gallina from Peru.

Peru’s ultimate comfort-food dish

Some crave chicken soup, others bolognese – but Peruvians have a go-to dish when they need a hug of warmth, and it’s surprisingly complex.

  • Ben Groundwater
Ox tongue anticuchos.

Everyone has a version of meat on a stick, but this might be the first

Skewers and protein add up to a marriage made in culinary heaven, in a practice that goes back to the Incas.

  • Ben Groundwater
Lomo saltado – a Peruvian standard.

It seems Chinese or American, but this hit dish originates elsewhere

So ubiquitous is lomo saltado in Peru, it’s basically their version of spag bol.

  • Ben Groundwater
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Disturbing rituals, ‘sex pots’, jewellery: The surprise relics being unearthed in Peru

When it comes to fascinating ancient artefacts, this Andean nation has so much beyond Machu Picchu.

  • Tim Elliott
The airport is scheduled to open on March 30.

New $3.2 billion airport set to open. There’s just one glaring problem

Peru’s new airport for Lima is set to open in weeks, but there’s still no road, no bridge and no train for passengers to access it.

The small central pool is an antidote to brutal humidity, and a chilled space to chat with staff from local villages.

You won’t sleep in this gloriously alive jungle, but you won’t care

There’s an exquisitely thin line between creatures and creature comforts in the Peruvian Amazon.

  • Steve Madgwick
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese greets US President Joe Biden at APEC Leaders’ Informal Dialogue.

Bro handshakes and bear hugs as Albanese meets Biden and Trudeau

The PM greeted the US and Canadian leaders ahead of the first talks at the APEC summit in Peru, which were skipped by China’s leader Xi Jinping.

  • David Crowe