Argentina News

On the offensive: Cristina Kirchner's government has been getting nasty with protesters against the encroachment of the mining giants An ever growing list of Xstrata investors have expressed their reservations about the proposed $90bn super merger with its estranged family member Glencore, which holds 34 per cent of the shares.

In this picture released by Argentina's Presidency, President Cristina Fernandez poses with actor Sean Penn at government palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday Feb.

The annals of boxing history are replete with sore losers but I think we'll have to create a new chapter for a washed up, 40ish fighter from Argentina named Luis Lazarte.

McEwen Mining is pleased to announce high-grade and exceptionally wide drilling intercepts on the Pilar vein at its 49% owned San Jose mine in Santa Cruz province, Argentina.

We're getting married in May and had planned to spend our honeymoon travelling around Argentina.

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Feb 13 -- Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno denied rumours that Argentina had requested Chile to join a blockade of the Falklands Islands.

The Laya 2009 might have been the deal of the day at the Import Vintners New Products Salon.

With only three weeks left before the beginning of the school year in most of Argentina's provinces, representatives from the country's largest teachers' unions urged the National Government to come to an agreement on collective bargaining.

From now on, the prices of domestic flight will increase. The increase is about 40% on average and was authorized by the National Government.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina &#8212 The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo says Spain's prosecution of crusading judge Baltasar Garzon is an assault on the human race.

Valentine's Dinner Dance. The United Methodist Men of First United Methodist Church in Compton will host their annual Valentine's Dinner Dance at 6 tonight at the Carson Community Center, 3 Civic Plaza Drive, Carson.

SHAH ALAM: A 28-year-old Thai woman, who swallowed 83 pellets containing drugs, was sentenced to death by a High Court here for trafficking in 765.9gm of cocaine.

Mining companies' branding of themselves as bringers of development needs to be critically examined against the burgeoning 'resource curse' literature that links mining to deepening national impoverishment in mining-dependent developing countries The Canadian International Development Agency's funding of Corporate Social Responsibility projects ... (more)

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez speaks Feb. 7, 2012, during a national address while standing in front of a Falklands Islands' map at Government Palace in Buenos Aires.

Cristina FernA ndez de Kirchner was a young crusading lawyer when she watched anxious military conscripts tramp through the cold and wind of her adopted home town, Rio Gallegos, on their way to invade the Falkland Islands .

The Loft PH Arias home creates a space for solace and alleviation in the subtropical environment of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Anyone in need of a short-notice winter warmer should consider the "southern cone" of South America.

Continued stressful southern Brazil conditions, a drier trend for Argentina, continued bitter cold conditions in Europe, renewed cold wave concerns in Ukraine, a decent chance for precipitation next week over the Southern Plains, and a dry and cold pattern in the western Midwest and Northern Plains are the main weather items for the commodity ... (more)

Family, fans and friends gathered today to pay their last tribute to musician and poet Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta.

The president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, inaugurated works in the locations in Buenos Aires of Olavarria and Merlo, and the town of General Alvear, Mendoza, via teleconference.