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Two retired military officers were sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a Catholic bishop during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship.

• 05 июля 2014, 18:01

Argentina will not make a bond service payment due June 30 in New York as ordered by a US judge, the economy ministry said Wednesday, moving the country closer to default.

• 19 июня 2014, 10:44

President Cristina Kirchner said that there would be no default in payment of Argentina's restructured debt, after a US Supreme Court ruling piled pressure on the country's finances.

• 17 июня 2014, 11:16

Argentina's former president Carlos Menem has been ordered to testify at a new inquiry into the 1995 death of his son in a helicopter crash, judicial sources said.

• 14 июня 2014, 14:58

A court in Argentina's Salta province Monday sentenced to 30 years in prison the man who raped and killed two young French women tourists out for a hike.

• 03 июня 2014, 10:40

The sexual abuse of nearly 300 girls and boys in just one year in a single Argentine province led authorities to separate them from their parents, authorities said.

• 02 июня 2014, 13:07

Kazakhstan and Argentina have signed a visa-free regime agreement.

• 01 июня 2014, 15:46

Paleontologists in Argentina's remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of what may be the largest dinosaur ever, amid a vast cache of fossils that could shed light on prehistoric life.

• 19 мая 2014, 13:31

A retired Brazilian colonel who last month admitted carrying out torture during the country's 1964-1985 military dictatorship has been found dead following a break-in at his suburban Rio home, police said Friday.

• 26 апреля 2014, 15:51

A series of raids west of Buenos Aires yielded 250 arrests and unearthed firearms and drugs, police said Monday, the second such operation in as many weeks.

• 22 апреля 2014, 12:37

US oil giant Chevron and state-controlled YPF unveiled plans Thursday to spend another $1.6 billion to develop Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation for oil and gas projects.

• 12 апреля 2014, 10:41

Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has agreed to be godmother to the baby daughter of a lesbian couple, one of the mothers told AFP.

• 02 апреля 2014, 14:25

A year after being chosen Pope Francis is very popular with American Catholics though his handling of the pedophile priests' scandal left many underwhelmed, a new study found.

• 06 марта 2014, 16:33

An Argentine police officer was arrested for selling a two-year-old girl.

• 31 января 2014, 16:07

An Argentine governor has caused a kerfuffle in his province after using a YouTube video to lay off half of his 340 provincial officials.

• 30 января 2014, 15:49

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that there was no panic in emerging markets even as countries like India, Turkey and Argentina were facing sharp capital outflows and currency pressures.

• 29 января 2014, 12:06

Cuban leader Fidel Castro lunched with Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner on Sunday on the sidelines of a summit of regional leaders.

• 27 января 2014, 10:27

The 35th edition of the world's most prestigious Dakar rally has finished in the Chilean city Valparaiso on January 18, 2014.

• 20 января 2014, 23:38

Kazakhstan's Astana Motorsports Team racing crews have reached the final straight of the Dakar rally.

• 20 января 2014, 18:47

The eleventh stage had a difficult high-speed special section that was a key one for the overall success in the Dakar 2014.

• 20 января 2014, 15:57