Israeli president predicts Chavez, Ahmadinejad will ‘disappear’ before long

Israel’s Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall

Buenos Aires marriage license is a first for same-sex couples in Latin America

Buenos Aires grants first marriage license to gays

Pro-gov’t group defends Argentina media law, counters criticism from international editors

Pro-government group defends Argentina media law

Press group: Latin American governments increasingly intervening in business of journalism

Press group: Latam governments moving in on press

AP interview: 15 years after Pablo Escobar’s death, son comes forward, asks forgiveness

AP interview: Pablo Escobar’s son asks forgiveness

Latin America news editors: Region’s populist leaders restrict press freedom, silence critics

News group: Latin American gov’ts restrict press

Trial begins for Argentina’s last dictator, ex-generals for kidnapping, torture and murder

Last Argentine dictator, ex-generals go on trial

Drought affects 90 percent of Argentina

BUENOS AIRES - About 90 percent of Argentinian territory is affected by the current drought, although the situation is aggravated in certain provinces by the spread of forest fires, figures released Sunday by officials said.

Argentine president decrees $2.6 billion in cash handouts for children of unemployed

Argentine leader decrees subsidies for poor kids

Argentine Congress considers legalizing same-sex marriage despite church opposition

Argentine Congress considers same-sex marriage

Argentine environmental secretary fined for failing to clean up river in Buenos Aires

Argentine enviro secretary fined for dirty river

Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil team up to protect Atlantic Forest, halt deforestation

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Three South American nations announced a joint plan Tuesday to establish protected zones in the vast Atlantic Forest as part of an effort to halt deforestation by 2020.

Che Guevara statue damaged in his hometown

BUENOS AIRES - Unknown people damaged a bronze statue of Ernesto Che Guevara in Rosario, the Argentine city where the icon of the Cuban revolution was born, an official said.

Argentine Senate approves law dismantling media monopolies, president to sign

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s Senate overwhelmingly approved a law that will transform the nation’s media landscape on Saturday, and President Cristina Fernandez quickly signed it into law.

Argentine writers offer creative take on Bible

BUENOS AIRES - Several acclaimed Argentine writers presented here a new work that uses the Bible as its starting point but takes creative liberties with some of the most widely read passages of that holy text.

Argentine astronomer calculated orbits of Halley’s Comet and Saturn’s outermost moon

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Pedro Elias Zadunaisky, an Argentine astronomer and mathematician whose calculations helped determine the orbit of Saturn’s outermost moon, Phoebe, as well as Halley’s Comet, died Wednesday. He was 91.

List of endangered monuments from World Monuments Funds

Afghanistan: Old City of Herat

Argentina: Buenos Aires Historic Center, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires

UN approves more money to fight desertification

BUENOS AIRES - A UN conference to battle spreading desertification agreed Saturday to increase funding to halt its dangerous effects.

Buenos Aires zoo officials say 3 endangered eagles to be released in the wild following rehab

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine zoo plans to release three endangered crowned eagles back into the wild after several months of rehabilitation during captivity.

Argentine team rescues adventure couple from dangerous hike atop Patagonian glaciers

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A British-French couple trying one of the world’s most difficult hikes — more than 250 miles (400 kilometers) of Andean glaciers that straddle the border between Chile and Argentina — had to give up after terrifying wind and snow nearly buried them alive.

Tango dance and music granted protected cultural status, put on UNESCO world heritage list

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Tango was declared part of the world’s cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the international seal of approval Argentina and Uruguay have long sought for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves.

The race to host the 2016 Olympics to come down to close finish at IOC vote in Copenhagen

LONDON — Close your eyes and imagine the possible scenarios in 2016.

Argentine police try to dislodge laid-off workers from Kraft Foods plant

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine police have used force to remove laid-off workers occupying a Kraft Foods plant since last month.

UN conference on desertification opens in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES - The ninth conference of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) opened here Monday with a call for concrete measures to fight land degradation.

Investment in climate change is not charity: UN

BUENOS AIRES - The failure of the international community to invest in adapting to climate change will jeopardise the world’s common future, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has said.

42 dead whales found in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES - Forty-two pilot whales beached themselves and died in a small bay in the southern Argentine province of Chubut, a marine expert has said.

Argentine leader, pursuing media law, drops plan for phone company-cable TV competition

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s president made a major concession Monday as she seeks votes for a proposed media law, saying telephone companies should not be allowed to compete for television customers after all.