Buenos Aires - The Argentine government has blinked for the first time since a 79-day farmers strike began, announcing ceilings on progressive export taxes on grain and soya, but farmers scoffed a

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Buenos Aires  - The Argentine government said Monday it would not continue negotiating with agricultural producers in the face of recent criticism from their leaders of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's policies.

Argentina's four agricultural federations organized a rally Sunday in Rosario, some 300 kilometres north of Buenos Aires, marking the Day of the May Revolution, which in 1810 began the country's independence from Spain.

Buenos Aires  - A federal public prosecutor on Thursday requested the arrest of former Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989-1999) over "irregularities in the investigation" of an attack on a Jewish mutual fund that claimed the lives of 85 people in 1994, Argentine media reported.

Public prosecutor Alberto Nisman also requested the arrests of Menem's brother Munir Menem, former intelligence service boss Hugo Anzorreguy and former federal judge Juan Galeano, initially in charge of the investigation on the attack. Federal judge Ariel Lijo will now have to make a decision also on those requests.