PRO lawmaker Federico Pinedo once again urged presidential candidates Ricardo Alfonsín, Eduardo Duhalde and Hermes Binner to join forces and agree for two of them to drop their presidential bids in order to have a stronger base come October. He also said he could support the Socialist Party in October.
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner resumed her activities on Monday and while attending a ceremony at the Military Academy, she said she would begin advocating for an increase in high-ranking female officials in the Armed Forces.
As the institutional crisis in the Santa Cruz police forces continues, governor Daniel Peralta officially signed a request asking the Federal Forces to step up and protect the citizens and provide order to the province.
Syrian armed forces launched a renewed offensive in the northern city of Aleppo today, state media said, a day after 87 people were killed in explosions at the city's university.
More than 20 foreigners were captive or missing inside a desert gas plant on Saturday, nearly two days after the Algerian army launched an assault to free them that saw many hostages killed.
Syrian army tanks shelled Aleppo and a helicopter gunship strafed rebel positions with heavy machinegun fire as they fought for control of the country's biggest city and key battleground of the 17-month uprising.
President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb today, killing five people, opposition activists said, a day before a UN-brokered ceasefire is due to come into force.
Syrian rebels fired mortars at President Bashar al-Assad's palace in Damascus today but missed, in an attack underlining the growing boldness of forces fighting to end his family's 42 years in power.
Yemeni security forces killed 21 people, some shot by snipers from rooftops, in a crowd of demonstrators in the worst bloodshed seen since March against a protest movement demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
UK’s Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced that 17 units are to be axed from the British army as part of sweeping reforms that will reduce its overall strength by 20,000 posts.
Syrian army helicopter fired machinegun rounds and troops shelled rebel positions in Aleppo on Saturday, a witness said, as they tried to break through the insurgents' frontline in a battleground district in the country's largest city.
Libyan rebels say the gunmen who shot dead their military chief were fighters allied in their struggle to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, raising questions over divisions and lawlessness within rebel ranks.
Libyan rebels today said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi's forces had sown minefields across its approaches.
Rebels fought gun battles in Tripoli with loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi as they hunted for his relatives and supporters, witnesses and an Arab television station said.
NATO aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, a NATO official said and then staged a rare daytime air strike on the Libyan capital, heightening pressure on him to quit.
Rebels waging a drawn-out war to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have run out of money, their oil chief said today, and he accused the West of not meeting promises to deliver urgent financial aid.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to attack "homes, offices and families" in Europe in revenge for NATO airstrikes but US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said he should quit instead of issuing threats.
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for negotiations with NATO powers to end the air strikes on Libya. "We did not attack them or cross the sea ... why are they attacking us?" Gaddafi said in a live television address in early hours.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO airstrike that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three of his grandchildren, a Libyan government spokesman said.
Artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi fell in Tunisia as fighting broke out near the border between Libyan soldiers and anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Syrian security forces killed almost 90 protesters, rights activists said, the bloodiest day in a month of escalating pro-democracy demonstrations against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
NATO jets hit a target near Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in central Tripoli, which the government described as a car park but which reporters said looked like a bunker.
Security forces deployed in a suburb of the Syrian capital and in the city of Banias, witnesses said, even as President Bashar al-Assad drew international criticism for sending in tanks to crush a revolt.
A fresh hail of government rockets crashed into Misrata after Western allies denounced a "medieval siege" of the city and vowed to keep bombing Muammar Gaddafi's forces until he stepped down.
Rebels said Muammar Gaddafi's forces targeted food industry plants in renewed bombardment of Misrata, a day after a Western rights group accused his loyalists of using cluster bombs in the besieged city.
Plain clothes security forces toting Ak-47s deployed in Homs overnight, a witness said, as the central Syrian city defied a crackdown following the killing of 21 pro-democracy protesters this week.
Anti-aircraft fire and explosions reverberated across Tripoli for a third night and state television said several sites had come under attack in the capital.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces resumed their attack on the rebel-held town of Misrata, moving back onto the offensive just hours after Western strikes silenced their guns.
A NATO-led air strike killed 13 Libyan rebels in a "regrettable incident," a rebel spokesman said, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega.
Yemeni security forces and pro-government gunmen killed at least 30 people and wounded around 50 others when they opened fire at a protest in Sanaa after Muslim prayers, medical sources and witnesses confirmed.
Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt, as Western warplanes prepared to attack his forces.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said he will arm civilians to defend Libya from what he called "colonial, crusader" aggression by Western forces that have launched air strikes against him.
Colombian security forces clashed on Wednesday with indigenous activists who stormed a hill-top military base in the volatile south as critics lambasted President Juan Manuel Santos for failing to protect troops.