Argentina is suspending flights from Mexico as a precaution against the spread of swine flu and wants tens of thousands of visitors from North America to report to the Health Ministry.

Argentina will funnel 30 percent of tax income levied on soy exports into an emergency fund destined for the nation’s 23 provinces, President Cristina Fernandez announced Thursday.

President Cristina Fernandez announced Tuesday she will send Congress a bill to nationalize defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.’s aircraft maintenance facility in central Argentina.

Three Argentine veterans who fought in the 1982 Falklands War against Great Britain are making their first trip back to the islands this weekend to run a marathon.

President Cristina Fernandez on Friday proposed moving congressional elections forward by four months to let the government focus more on fighting economic problems and less on politics.

Argentina on Wednesday launched a probe into the alleged kidnapping and torture of an attorney who accused top officials of a coverup in the nation’s worst terrorist attack.

A U.S. mountain climbing instructor died and two American students were injured when the ice bridge they were crossing on an Argentina peak broke, plunging them into a crevasse, officials of the sponsoring organization said Monday.

Argentine farmers said Friday that they would fight a reported plan to nationalize grain trading, warning that such a move would deepen a long-running conflict between the government and agricultural groups.

Members of Argentina’s armed forces will be tried by civil courts rather than military tribunals under a new rule that took effect Friday, part of a government effort to increase control over the military.

Argentina’s foreign minister says President Cristina Fernandez has summoned the U.S. to discuss the CIA director’s comments about how the world economic crisis could destabilize some Latin American governments.