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An Aerolíneas Argentinas flight makes an emergency landing in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province, after a bomb threat. The flight with 169 passengers and six crew members was flying from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Province.
2022-07-23

Thousands of Argentinian farmers protest against President Alberto Fernández's new export taxes on farm goods, which protesters say is a "rope that is being used to choke us". The farmers used tractors to block the road leading to the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires.
2022-04-23

Argentina's president Alberto Fernández announces that his government is closing schools and imposing a curfew in Buenos Aires amidst a spike of the COVID-19 cases.
2021-04-15

The number of daily new cases in Argentina tops 10,000 for the first time with 10,550 new cases in the past 24 hours as the country extends lockdown restrictions in and around capital city Buenos Aires until the end of August.
2020-08-26

A 55-year-old pediatrician, Ricardo Russo, is arrested at the Hospital Garrahan in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was Chief of the Immunology Department. He is accused of sexually abusing minors, distributing and possessing child pornography, including handicapped children and babies. He was wanted by the U.S. FBI and public prosecutors in Brazil.
2019-05-29

The Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza unexpectedly dies of an illness in Buenos Aires at the age of 66.
2017-11-18

Voters in Argentina go to the polls for a presidential runoff between Daniel Scioli of the ruling Justicialist Party and Mauricio Macri of the opposition PRO. Mauricio Macri, the mayor of Buenos Aires, was elected with 53% of the vote.
2015-11-22

2013 Argentina floods: More than 50 people are killed in major floods in Buenos Aires and La Plata, Argentina, due to heavy rain.
2013-04-3

A bomb explodes at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires; there are no injuries. Some windows are broken.
2010-12-30

Tens of thousands take part in a church-sponsored demonstration against same-sex marriage outside Congress in Buenos Aires, as senators prepare to vote on a bill which would make Argentina the first South American country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2010-07-14