Argentina identifies the remains of a body that washed ashore in Uruguay in 1976 as a “disappeared” victim of that era.

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Argentine ‘Dirty War’ body named

Members of Congress in Uruguay vote to uphold an amnesty that has shielded officers during military rule from prosecution.

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Uruguay Congress upholds amnesty

A new form of transnational surrogacy has been taking hold for the world’s aspiring parents, The Chicago Tribune reports . Couples from Europe, Latin America, and beyond have brought their embryos to America’s shores–and particularly to surrogate mothers in Illinois. This “new twist in global fertility tourism” is largely an effect of differing national laws surrounding paid surrogacy: The state of Illinois is particularly receptive, and would-be moms and dads from around the globe have responded. Inquires, according to one director, have recently skyrocketed.  ”There’s such pride in knowing that I did this for somebody,” one woman tells the Tribune , pregnant with her second transnational baby (this one from Spain, the first having been from Serbia). In the last five years, would-be parents from as far as Istanbul and Uruguay have turned to healthy young mothers from Illinois to carry their children. The babies are born U.S. citizens, surrogacy agency officials say, but that’s not a primary motivation for the parents, who typically come from European and Latin American countries where surrogacy is illegal or unavailable. The parents have exhausted other options and are willing to pay about $50,000 to $100,000 — part of which goes to the surrogate — to have biological children. No one tracks how many of the estimated 1,400 babies via surrogacy in the U.S. each year are carried for international parents, but one of the larger U.S. agencies, the Center for Surrogate Parenting in Encino , Calif., estimates that about half of its 104 births in 2010 were for international parents. In Illinois, which has had one of the most surrogacy-friendly laws in the nation, at least two dozen international babies were born to surrogates in 2010, according to a Tribune survey of major agencies. The only other states that explicitly allow contracts for paid surrogacy are Arkansas , California and Massachusetts . Read the full story at The Chicago Tribune.

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Why Foreign Couples Want to Impregnate Illinois’ Women

Ahead of the NFL’s annual Super Bowl, American Football players in Russia, France and Uruguay tell BBC News about their love for the game.

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Super Bowl dreams around the world

Dutch club Ajax tell Liverpool to come up with a “respectful” offer for Luis Suarez if they want to sign the Uruguay striker.

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Ajax want ‘respectful’ Suarez bid

Delegates at a tobacco control conference in Uruguay call for additives aimed at new smokers to be reduced or banned.

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UN urges tobacco additive limits

Rising number of foreigners choosing Uruguay for a better lifestyle

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