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Care to dance?

US President Barack Obama takes to the dance floor at a state dinner in Argentine city of Buenos Aires, trying out the traditional Argentine Tango.

24/03/2016

Argentina

Obama adds Argentina to South America reset list

US President Barack Obama has promised a new era in relations with Argentina, with US firms announcing more than two billion dollars of new

23/03/2016

Argentina

Obama arrives in Argentina

The US president wants to reset diplomatic and trade ties with the free market Mauricio Macri.

23/03/2016

Argentina

Argentine coastguard sinks illegal Chinese trawler

Argentina’s coastguard has sunk a Chinese fishing trawler that was apparently operating illegally within its territorial waters. Warning shots were

16/03/2016

Sport

Argentine champions Boca Juniors appoint Schelotto as coach

Argentine champions Boca Juniors have appointed former player Barros Schelotto as their new coach following Monday’s sacking of Rodolfo Arruabarrena

03/03/2016

Argentina

Argentina strikes deal with US 'holdout' creditors

Argentina agrees in principle to a deal with US hedge funds ending a 15-year-old dispute over repayment of billions of dollars worth of bonds.

01/03/2016

Afghanistan

{Watch} From plastic bag to the real thing: Messi delights Afghan boy with signed jersey

An Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation by wearing a plastic bag fashioned as a Lionel Messi shirt now has the real thing. The Argentinian

25/02/2016

Sport

Mascherano accepts one-year jail term in plea bargain

Argentina international Javier Mascherano has been handed a suspended one year prison sentence for tax evasion. Last year the Barcelona star pleaded

21/01/2016

Sport

Dakar Rally: Al-Attiyah wins stage 11 in San Juan

Defending cars champion Nasser Al-Attiyah won his second stage in this year’s Dakar Rally on Thursday. The Qatari Mini driver won stage 11 from La

14/01/2016

World

WISE Awards: Qatar maths and science push and Argentina Videobooks win praise

Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and education for people with disabilities regularly top the agenda of the World Innovation Summit

08/01/2016

Sport

Dakar racer ploughs into spectators injuring ten

A car racing in the Dakar Rally careered off the road and smashed into a crowd of spectators injuring ten, five of them seriously.

03/01/2016

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Streets turned to rivers in Argentina

As heavy rains cause rivers to swell in north-eastern Argentina, at least 20,000 people have been forced to be evacuated by the worst flooding in 50

27/12/2015

Argentina

Argentina: grandmother of missing child vows to 'continue fighting' after ID error

After almost four decades, she was filled with hope that a missing granddaughter had finally been found. But Maria Isabel de Mariani, the founder of

27/12/2015

Argentina

DNA dashes hope of Argentina activist searching for stolen child

The woman thought to be the lost granddaughter of an activist who searches for babies stolen during Argentina's military dictatorship was someone else, DNA tests show.

26/12/2015

Argentina

Argentine "stolen baby" reunited with grandmother after 39 years

After a search that’s taken almost 40 years, Chicha Mariani has at last been reunited with her granddaughter, Clara. Clara was one of Argentina’s

25/12/2015

Economy

Macri scaps currency controls and floats Argentine peso

The new Conservative government in Argentina has wasted little time in making an economic break with the recent past by floating the peso and

17/12/2015

Argentina

Argentine bus crash kills at least 42

A fatal crash in Argentina has left at least 42 dead when a bus careered over a cliff and into a ravine. It happened in the northern province of

14/12/2015

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Thousands of Argentines participate in mass street tango

Hundreds of couples took to the streets of downtown Buenos Aires on Saturday night, turning a main avenue into a three block open-air tango dance

14/12/2015

Argentina

Jubilation and anger as Mauricio Macri becomes Argentina's new president

Argentina’s new president Mauricio Macri has taken up the reigns, heading up a country which is deeply divided. His swearing-in has brought both his

11/12/2015

Argentina

Argentina: the dawn of a new era

Argentina gets a new president Mauricio Macri is centre-right Predecessor Cristina Fernandez boycotts handover ceremony Macri vows to work for

10/12/2015