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Economy

Argentina announces $50bn standby deal with IMF

Agreement is a turning point in a country where many blame the IMF for the 2001 economic crisis

08/06/2018

Argentina

Scuffles at Buenos Aires anti-WTO rally

Protesters marched against a World Trade Organization meeting being held in the Argentinian capital.

13/12/2017

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Argentina celebrates tango

Annual mass tango performance takes place in the Argentine capital.

03/12/2017

Argentina

Satellite signals in search for missing Argentine submarine

The ARA San Juan submarine with 44 crew members on board vanished on Wednesday

19/11/2017

Argentina

Violence at protest for missing Argentinian activist

There have been angry scenes in Argentina as tens of thousands of protesters gathered to call for a missing indigenous rights activist to be found.

02/09/2017

Argentina

Gutierrez & Ballejo take Salon Tango World Cup in Buenos Aires

A Argentine dance partnership beat off all competition to win the 2017 Salon Tango prize in Buenos Aires.

23/08/2017

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Produce given away in Buenos Aires protest

Farmers in Buenos Aires are giving away their produce to people in protest over conditions for small-scale producers.

27/04/2017

Argentina

Shall we dance? - World Tango Championship draws to a close

Argentinian dancers Cristian Palomo and Melisa Sacchi have been crowned the Salon Tango world champions in front of a home crowd.

01/09/2016

Cult

Opera goes underground in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires’ subway commuters broke their daily routine in mid-August when an opera company took to Las Heras station’s main hall to perform an 18th century…

26/08/2016

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The right to breastfeed

Hundreds of Argentine women came out in greater Buenos Aires Saturday (July 23) to rally in defence of their right to breastfeed in public whenever and wherever they…

25/07/2016

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

Culture news

Argentina's World Tango Championships bigger than ever

The World Tango Festival and Championship is held annually in the Argentine capital from the 14th -27th August. Couples swirl and sweep across the

28/08/2015

Sport

River Plate win third Copa Libertadores title

River Plate capped off a remarkable comeback to the top of South American football after winning their third Copa Libertadores title in the club’s

06/08/2015

Argentina

Argentine court to rule on 'depressed' orangutan

In a world first, a court in Argentina is to rule on whether an orangutan named Sandra is entitled to certain human rights including the right to be

21/05/2015

Sport

River Plate players sprayed with eye irritant by Boca fans in Buenos Aires

Four River Plate players have been treated in hospital after they were sprayed with an eye irritant by fans of city rivals Boca Juniors in Buenos

15/05/2015

Argentina

Argentina opens all files on 1994 Jewish community centre bombing

The Argentinian government has declassified all documents relating to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires. The demand for

14/03/2015

Argentina

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman 'was murdered', says ex-wife

Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado says independent forensic tests prove that her former husband - who had accused the president of a cover-up - did not commit suicide but was killed.

06/03/2015

Cinema

Will Smith is back opposite Wolf of Wall Street's Margot Robbie

Will Smith is back, as veteran con artist Nicky who meets his match when he stumbles upon novice Jess in crime-comedy ‘Focus’. Jess is played by

26/02/2015

Argentina

Argentina: man keeps mummified corpse of mother in kitchen

10/01/2014

Musica

Embracing tango in Buenos Aires

20/09/2012