Argentine web host Dattatec became the first company to obtain Antarctic domain registration rights this week. Until now only government websites of countries having signed the Antarctic Treaty were allowed to register domains under the .aq extension.

Today, at 6pm in the University in Bahía Blanca, the tribunal courts will announce criminal sentences for those of the Fifth Military Unit that performed crimes against humanity. Victims and their supporters will also rally outside the facility for justice.

Supermarkets in Buenos Aires announced that they will be implementing a new bagging system with coloured bags from October 2012.

The Federal Administration of Public Income (AFIP) is investigating the alleged tax evasion in the transfer of 444 footballers here in Argentina. Among those in the hot seat are Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero and Barcelona’s Javier Mascherano. “An investigation is under way concerning supposed (tax) evasion in transfers of footballers,” a senior judicial source told […]

Vice-president of the Financial Commission of the House of Representatives, Fernando Yarade, announced yesterday that the national government would no longer pay for half the subte subsidies in 2013. The shift is in accordance with the deal made on November 10 of 2011, when the then secretary of National Transportation Juan Pablo Schiavi, agreed to […]

Representatives of the national government and Córdoba province were today unable to reach an agreement in the Supreme Court over a claim for over $1bn in outstanding pension payments made by the province. After the unsuccessful mediation, the governor of Córdoba province José Manuel De la Sota, publicly criticised the national government, saying that it […]

The governor of Buenos Aires province, Daniel Scioli, today confirmed that the government will provide tax relief for the farmers most affected by widespread flooding in the area. Speaking on Mitre radio, Scioli declared that “obviously we are not going to tax those producers whose farms are completely flooded.” He added that the provincial government […]

The city of Buenos Aires government today released the conditions under which victims of rape can seek an abortion without the need for prior judicial authorisation or fear of posterior legal action. According to the resolution signed by the city’s health ministry, doctors will only require a sworn statement or police report to perform an […]

A father and son have been arrested for the murder of a nurse, Walter Navarro, from the pediatric unit, ‘Claudio Zin’, of the Malvinas Argentinas.

Major flooding is occurring in the province and Greater Buenos Aires area with officials claiming that there are losses in the millions with 17 municipalities in a state of agricultural emergency.