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Argentine celebrities turn against the government

Reuters US Online Report World News 7 days ago

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Combative Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has a new enemy: as her popularity falls, top television celebrities turned on her this week for not dealing with crime and street protests. The vitriolic attacks on top-rated programs came as Fernandez ...

Argentine judge allows gay wedding in legal first

Reuters Life! Online Report 7 days ago

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has granted a homosexual couple permission to get married, setting a precedent that could pave the way for the Catholic country to become the first in Latin America to allow same-sex marriage. This week's ruling ...

Travel Picks: Top 10 cities to party the night away

Reuters Life! Online Report 7 days ago

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Looking to tread terrain still untouched by foreign stag expeditions? Want to unwind in luxury or drink up the sun? Lonely Planet lists the world's top 10 party cities in its new guide, the "1000 Ultimate Experiences." This ...

News group: Latin American gov'ts restrict press

AP News 14 days ago

Latin America news editors: Region's populist leaders restrict press freedom, silence critics Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. Tactics include revoking ...

Obituaries in the news

AP News 17 days ago

Obituaries in the news Bernerd Harding CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, ...

Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala dies aged 103

AP News 17 days ago

Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, who fled into exile during dictatorship, dies aged 103 Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile. Ayala's foundation ...

Former Argentine military ruler in Dirty War trial

Reuters US Online Report World News 18 days ago

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last military president in Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship went on trial on Monday in a makeshift courtroom in a sports arena on charges of kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a concentration camp. Frail-looking Reynaldo Bignone, ...

Argentina Dirty War Trial

AP News 18 days ago

Former military, police and de facto president attend the start of their trial in connection with human rights abuses during Argentina's dirty war in Buenos Aires, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. From left to right are former police officer German Montenegro, former army ...

Artentina Dirty War Trial

AP News 18 days ago

Human rights activists hold portraits of missing people as Argentina's last de facto president, Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, and seven other army officers, seen in background, attend the start of their trial in connection with human rights abuses during the 1976-1983 dictatorship at ...

Argentine Congress Debates Gay Marriage

On Top Magazine 21 days ago

Argentine lawmakers are considering a gay marriage bill Argentine lawmakers are considering a gay marriage bill, the AP reported. If approved, Argentina would become the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage and only the second country in the Americas, after ...

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