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For 35 years, Zaida Franz has not been able to find her daughter, a girl who dreamed of becoming an astronomer and then disappeared without a trace. Now she at least has an address she can think about — out in space.
Cristina Fernandez begins a second 4-year presidential term Saturday at the top of her game, having won a landslide re-election and overseen stellar economic growth, yet she will soon have to make some tough, and risky, choices.
A determined young crowd advances down the avenue despite a steady drizzle, beating drums, setting off fireworks and handing out pamphlets. They aren't lashing out in anger, like the unemployed youths of Europe, Chile's student marchers or America's "Occupy Wall Street" activists.
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem and 17 members of his government were acquitted Tuesday of charges that they violated international weapons embargoes on Ecuador and Croatia in the 1990s.
A couple from Argentina salvaged hometown honor Tuesday night by winning the "stage tango" category on the closing day of the World Tango Championships.
President Cristina Fernandez says in the first authorized biography about her life that Argentina's political and media opposition tried to remove her from office.
Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri will have to face a run-off in his re-election bid after falling short of a majority Sunday.
The influential rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is struggling with a corruption scandal that forced it to fire a top executive accused of misusing taxpayer funds meant to build housing for the poor.
A delegation from the Inter-American Press Association was in Argentina Wednesday to study complaints that the government is trying to eliminate independent media.
Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa thanked Argentina's president Thursday for preventing Argentine intellectuals from blocking his keynote address at the nation's annual book fair.
A court on Thursday sentenced a former army general to life in prison and three ex-state agents to 20 or 25 years for crimes against humanity committed in a notorious torture center during Argentina's military dictatorship.
The president is dressed entirely in black, the color of mourning that she has worn each day since the death of her husband five months ago.
A long-awaited trial began Monday for two former Argentine dictators who allegedly oversaw a systematic plan to steal babies born to political prisoners three decades ago.
Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking nations wrapped up their annual meeting Saturday by adopting a provision threatening exclusion for any member country that doesn't abide by democratic process.
Argentine coup leader Emilio Eduardo Massera died Monday after suffering for years from a heart condition and dementia that left him too ill to be tried for crimes against humanity. He was 85.
Argentina's president emerged from mourning Monday vowing to honor the memory of her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, as she leads the country.
Thousands of young Argentines marched to the presidential palace on Thursday to protest the quality of public education, joining a student rebellion that accuses politicians of neglecting schools and universities that were once the envy of Latin America.
Diego Maradona was given the boot as Argentina's soccer coach before he could resign.
President Cristina Fernandez signed a new law Wednesday making Argentina the first country in Latin America to legalize marriage for same-sex couples.
An Argentine legislator has proposed building a monument to honor Diego Maradona, whose future as coach of the national soccer team has been uncertain since it was eliminated in the World Cup quarterfinals by Germany.
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla went on trial Friday, facing the first of a wave of human rights charges that have accumulated against him since the Supreme Court struck down his presidential pardon in 2007.
Federal police on Monday uncovered four tons (4,200 kilograms) of ephedrine in oil drums and boxes to be sent to Mexico and the United States. The lead investigator called it the largest illegal shipment of the methamphetamine precursor ever seized in Argentina, worth millions.
Argentina's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that people can't be forced to give blood for genetic tests to determine whether they were taken at birth from political detainees who were killed during the dictatorship era.
Divers have concluded a mission to retrieve 9.5 tons of unrefined gold and silver worth nearly $22 million from a shipwreck off southern Argentina.
A dissident Cuban surgeon said Sunday that she harbors no grudge against Fidel Castro upon arriving in Argentina for an emotional family reunion after being denied permission to leave Cuba for more than a decade.
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