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Argentina's President Takes Aim At Country's Intelligence Agency

5:19pm January 27, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Cristina Fernandez went on TV to say she would do away with the agency. It was the latest episode in the mysterious shooting death of a prosecutor who was investigating a 20-year-old terrorist attack.

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Argentina's President Says She Will Disband Intelligence Agency

12:14pm January 27, 2015

It's the latest twist in a drama linked to allegations of government corruption and the mysterious death of a prosecutor. NPR's Melissa Block talks about the latest with NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro.

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U.S.-Cuba Talks First Step In Long Process Of Restoring Relations

9:00am January 27, 2015

by Carrie Kahn

U.S. diplomats have wrapped up two days of talks with Cuban officials — the highest-level meeting in 35 years. The aim is to start talking through how to restore diplomatic relations following the historic warming of ties announced last month by President Obama and President Raul Castro.

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Argentinians Doubt Prosecutor's Death Was Suicide

6:34pm January 26, 2015

by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Rumors are rampant that the death of Alberto Nisman had something to do with alleged government wrongdoing related to the investigation of a terror attack in the 1990s.

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For U.S. And Cuba, A Slow Walk To Re-Establishing Ties

1:08pm January 25, 2015

American and Cuban diplomats sat face-to-face in Havana this week for historic talks. NPR's Arun Rath talks with correspondent Carrie Kahn about the U.S. and Cuba re-establishing diplomatic ties.

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In Argentinian Murder Mystery, Prosecutor's Death Spawns Many Suspects

3:32pm January 24, 2015

The death of an Argentinian prosecutor investigating what he said was a government cover-up has the entire country talking. NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro tells Scott Simon the latest developments.

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As U.S. Reengages With Cuba, Art Museums Make a Trade

12:10pm January 24, 2015

by NPR Staff

The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Cuba's National Museum of Fine Arts are exchanging works from their collections. It's the largest art exchange between the two countries in more than 50 years.

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Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association community center, talks to journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2013. Nisman was found shot dead in his apartment on Sunday.

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Argentine President Now Says Prosecutor's Death 'Not A Suicide'

4:41pm January 23, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Alberto Nisman, who accused the Argentine leader of covering up Iran's role in a 1994 terrorist attack, was found shot dead in his apartment on Sunday.

A scan produced by Gregory Asner's airborne, laser-and-spectrometer-equipped lab.

Ecologist's Airborne Scanners See The Forest And The Trees — All Of Them

10:02am January 23, 2015

by Laura Secorun Palet

Gregory Asner has loaded a plane with lasers, spectrometers and computers to create models so detailed, they distinguish between and count plant species in even the densest biomes, like the Amazon.

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Questions Over Prosecutor's Death Envelop Argentina

8:14am January 23, 2015

Alberto Nisman was investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. He was found dead in his apartment on Sunday. David Greene talks to journalist Jonathan Gilbert.

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