Peru's new president sworn in after impeachment drama

LIMA: Martin Vizcarra was sworn in as Peru's new president Friday, after the vice president was catapulted to the post when Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned to avoid impeachment.

Vizcarra, a 55-year-old engineer and technocrat who also was Peru's ambassador to Canada, took the oath of office and donned the red-and-white presidential sash before Congress, shortly after lawmakers voted to accept Kuczynski's resignation rather than push ahead with impeaching him over corruption allegations.