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Twenty-Five Injured After Small Fire on Mitre Train Line
A train on the Mitre Line (Photo via Wikipedia) At least 25 people suffered injuries – including nine who were taken to hospital – after a small fire broke out on a train on the Mitre commuter line....
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Police Raid Football Clubs Over Corruption Claims
Twenty-five first and second division teams were raided by the Federal Police in Buenos Aires, Santa Fé, Córdoba, San Juan, and Mendoza. The raids were ordered by Judge María Servini de Cubría, who is...
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Senate Approves Reforms to Criminal Procedure Code
Senators debate the bill to modify the Criminal Procedure Code (photo: Fernando Sturla/Télam) The bill to modify the Criminal Procedure Code was passed by the Senate last night, by 39 votes to 24. It...
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President Fernández Resumes Public Activities
President Fernández was greeted by supporters outside the Sheraton hotel (photo: Presidencia/CF) President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner made her first public appearance after 26 days yesterday, at...
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New Trains for Mitre Line to Tigre
Minister Florencio Randazzo presented the new trains in Tigre (photo: Prensa Ministerio Interior/jcp) The new trains on the Mitre commuter line connecting Retiro with Tigre started working yesterday....
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At Least Two Injured in Clashes Between ‘Barrabravas’
River’s barrabrava (photo: Wikipedia) Over a hundred members of a ‘dissident’ faction within the River Plate barra brava attacked other barras (hooligans) at the club’s cafeteria on Tuesday. At least...
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Uproar over Photo Showing Chubut Mining Lobby
Chubut lawmaker Gustavo Muñiz responds to Gastón Berardi’s message (photo by Enrique Viale) Activists have expressed anger over Chubut lawmaker Gustavo Muñiz’s exchange of messages with a mining...
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Judges Give Long Prison Sentences in Villa Moreno Massacre Trial
The four men found guilty in the Villa Moreno Massacre Trial (Photo: José Granata/Télam)Four men were found guilty of perpetrating the so-called Villa Moreno Massacre and sentenced to long prison terms...
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Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Announce Recovery of 116th Grandchild
Estela de Carlotto (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)The head of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, announced yesterday the recovery of the 116th grandchild abducted during Argentina’s last...
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Congress Approves New Criminal Procedure Code
Legislators approve a new Criminal Procedure Code (Photo: Fernando Sturla/Télam)Legislators in the lower house of Congress approved changes to the Criminal Procedure Code after a lengthy debate last...
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Landowner Acquitted in Cristian Ferreyra Case
Victim Cristian Ferreyra, and his baby child (Image via MOCASE-VC) Jorge Ciccioli, a landowner accused of masterminding the murder of indigenous farmer Cristian Ferreyra in 2011, was acquitted this...
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NGOs Demand Improved Access to Non-Punishable Abortion
‘Legal abortion now!’ is scrawled in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires (photo: Thiago Skárnio, via flickr)NGOs and human rights groups have filed a legal suit against the state to demand that...
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Vice-President Boudou to Stand Trial
Vice president Amado Boudou (photo: Paula Ribas/Télam/ef) A judge has announced that vice-president Amado Boudou will stand trial for allegedly using fake and forged documents to register a car in his...
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Government Announces Cabinet Shuffle
Aníbal Fernández will return to the executive as secretary-general for the presidency. (Photo via Wikipedia)Public Communications Secretary Alfredo Scoccimarro, has announced changes in the cabinet...
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New National Park Created in Santa Cruz
Patagonia National Park, in the Santa Cruz steppe, was created yesterday (photo: APN) Congress passed a bill yesterday creating Argentina’s newest national park in the southern province of Santa Cruz....
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City of Chivilcoy Bans Beauty Pageants
Beauty pageants are carried out throughout the country (photo: Wikipedia) The Chivilcoy City Council has banned beauty pageants, after considering they are “sexist”. Beauty pageants are a common...
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Buenos Aires Legislature Passes Cultural Centres Law
The bill was passed by 56 votes to nil (photo courtesy of MECA) Buenos Aires legislators approved unanimously a bill to regulate the activities of cultural centres. The bill had been put forward to the...
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Salta Governor closes Deforestation Loophole
Illegal deforestation in Salta (Photo courtesy of Greenpeace Argentina) To the delight of environmentalists, deforestation will no longer be allowed in protected areas of Salta. Provincial governor,...
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Habeas Corpus Granted to Orangutan in Buenos Aires Zoo
An orangutan in its natural habitat, in the forests of Borneo (photo: Wikipedia) Setting a global precedent, an Argentine court has granted basic rights to Sandra, a Sumatran orangutan that has spent...
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Ex Dictator Bignone Among Four Convicted for Abduction of Babies
Ex-dictator Reynaldo Bignone (Photo: Wikipedia)Former dictator Reynaldo Bignone was among four people sentenced to prison yesterday for the abduction of babies during the 1976-83 military dictatorship....
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