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'Raid' to seize DNA of Argentina media heirs
Source: BBC News

Lawyers for young heirs of an Argentine media empire say police raided their homes amid suspicions they were victims of state-organised forced adoption.

DNA 'proves Argentine's incest'
Source: BBC News

An Argentine man accused of incest fathered seven children with his daughter, officials have said.

Britain and Argentina dispute rights to seabed around the Falkland Islands
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Argentina has lodged a hostile claim at the United Nations for 660,000 square miles of the South Atlantic seabed immediately surrounding the Falkland Islands and other British overseas territories.

British bishop who denied scale of Holocaust loses job
Source: Guardian Unlimited

A British bishop who has questioned the truth of the Holocaust has been removed from the seminary in Argentina that he had directed for the past five years.

Protecting Argentina's parrot colony
Source: BBC News

You might think that 180,000 squawking, screeching parrots living in 35,000 nests along 12km (seven miles) of coastline would draw quite a lot of attention.

10,000 bone fragments found in former Argentine detention center
Source: CNN

More than 10,000 charred bone fragments were found buried at the site of a former Argentine government detention center, the first find of its kind at one of the secret centers, Argentine officials said.

Argentina passes pension privatisation bill
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Argentina's Lower House has approved President Cristina Kirchner's plan to nationalise private pension funds. The controversial proposal has sparked demonstrations throughout the country but after a rigorous 14-hour debate, the Lower House passed the bill.

US convicts 'suitcase cash' man
Source: BBC News

An US court has convicted a Venezuelan businessman over an alleged Venezuelan government plot to influence last year's Argentine presidential election.

Argentine Beekeepers No Longer in Clover
Source: planetark.com

Beekeepers had it easy when cattle roamed freely across the flower-filled meadows of Argentina's Pampas plains. But a boom in soy farming has changed all that.

Mossad scrapped plan to nab 'Angel of Death'
Source: news.sbs.com.au

Israel's Mossad spy organisation cancelled a plan to capture notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in Argentina in 1960 at the last minute.

Dog rescues abandoned baby
Source: news.sbs.com.au

A female dog has found an abandoned newborn baby girl and taken the child home with her puppies in a poor suburb of the Argentine city of La Plata, local media has reported citing police sources.

Lost Metropolis footage found in Argentina
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Three reels of missing portions of a German science fiction film Metropolis made in 1927 have been discovered in Argentina.

Buenos Aires gardens may house illicit graveyard
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Argentine authorities have closed the capital's Botanical Garden while they investigate allegations that employees sold plots of land to bury human remains, local media reported.

Argentine farmers vow to resume strike
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Argentine farmers organisations said they were beginning another phase of a strike that has already dealt a heavy blow to the country's economy.

Argentine farm groups to lift protest on Monday
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Argentine farm groups have decided to end their latest protest against soy export taxes on Monday as planned, after a meeting where they discussed possibly extending the anti-government action.

Argentine parents jailed over illegal adoption
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

An Argentine couple have been jailed for illegally adopting a baby girl born 30 years ago to parents who were kidnapped by the military government.

After teen suicides, an Argentine tribe outlaws 'white' vices
Source: Christian Science Monitor

The village is in the midst of a quarantine called for by the cacique, or traditional leader, after two teens shocked the community by committing suicide in September.

Argentina vows Falklands' return
Source: BBC News

Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has said Britain won a "colonial victory" in the Falklands War that was unacceptable in the eyes of the world.

Argentina cancels junta pardons
Source: BBC News

A court in Argentina has cancelled pardons for human rights violations granted to two former military leaders, Jorge Videla and Eduardo Massera. The court said the pardons granted in 1990 by former Argentine President Carlos Menem were unconstitutional.

Anteater savages zookeeper
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

An anteater attacked a young zookeeper in Argentina, ripping open the woman's abdomen and legs with its long claws and leaving her in critical condition. This female anteater apparently attacked her keeper at a Buenos Aires-area zoo to protect her offspring.

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