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  • Life In Argentinas Little School Prison Camp

    During Argentina's so-called Dirty War, thousands were abducted and taken to secret prisons like a place known as "the little school," where many were tortured and killed. Guest host Jennifer Ludden talks to a former prisoner, Alicia Partnoy, about her disappearance and her time ...

  • Argentina Takes EU Biodiesel Policy to WTO

    has requested World Trade Organization consultations with the European Union regarding measures imposed by the EU and its member states that affect the importation and marketing of biodiesel, as well as measures supporting the biodiesel industry.Argentina is specifically referring to measures applied by the EU for the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and the introduction of ...

  • Iran Ratifies Memorandum of Understanding with Argentina

    Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Argentina. The MoU, a bilateral agreement, was created between the two countries in January this year and represents a commitment on the part of both nations to investigate the circumstances surrounding the AMIA attack of 1994. The attack, which left 85 people dead, has yet to see the perpetrators identified or brought to justice. The Iranian president, ...

  • Joint Vatican City State and Argentina Stamps Presented to Pontiff

    Stamps Dedicated to Beginning of Pope Francis PontificateBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis was presented with the stamps issued jointly between the Vatican City State and Argentina, which are dedicated to the beginning of his pontificate. The presentation was made this morning in the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.The four stamps in the set, ...

  • Buenos Aires province teachers threaten to strike again

    The Buenos Aires province teachers' union announced in a press briefing today they will continue protesting "until the government improves the 22.6 percent wage hike offer." If that doesn't happen in the next hours, they will renew the call for 48-hour strikes. "There is a government that rejects to improve its (wage) offer, we teachers will strike," Mirta Petrocini ...

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

One doesnt have to be a cynic in order to speculate that the decision to split J.K. Rowlings seventh and final Harry Potter novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films was primarily an economic one. Given that th ... ...

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  • Argentine president to visit Brazil

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet on Friday her Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner for talks on enhanced bilateral cooperation, Brazilian authorities said Wednesday.The Brazil-Argentina Business Council created during Rousseff's visit to Argentina on Jan. 31 will meet for the first time in Brasilia on Friday, a statement released Wednesday by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, ...

  • Falkland Islands Argentina blasts UK’s ‘double standard’ on self determination right

    Argentina questioned the UK after its negative vote at the United Nations General Assembly “to place French Polynesia back on the UN list of non autonomous territories that should be decolonised” Additionally Argentina renewed its claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty and described the UK attitude, ‘colonial ...

  • Lan back in the air in Argentina after yielding to ground services boycott

    Chilean company Lan Airlines said on Saturday it was "gradually resuming" domestic and international flights in Argentina that it had suspended on Friday due to a conflict with state-run Intercargo company. Intercargo said it had re-established the service to Lan after the airline agreed to cancel a ...

  • Lan privileged passengers but will review investments and expects ‘common sense’ from Argentine officials

    Lan Chile admitted the company had to yield to the demands from the Argentine company Intercargo, which monopolizes ground services in all the country’s air terminals, so that they could resume normal traffic in Argentina. It also said that it was not leaving Argentine but would review future investments and expects more common sense from local ...

  • 5. Burial place of Argentinas Videla a mystery

    BUENOS AIRES: The burial place and funeral arrangements for the late Argentine dictator Jorge Videla remained a mystery Sunday, with official sources maintaining a tight-lipped no comment. Videla, dictator from 1976 to 1981 at the height of Argentina's "Dirty War" against leftist activists, died Friday in prison while serving time for crimes against humanity. He was 87. "I ...

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