A visiting Belgrano player was hit in the face by a truncheon as riot police tried to control rioting fans near the end of his team's 2-0 defeat at Newell's Old Boys in Rosario, Argentinian media reported.The defender Gaston Turus intervened as Belgrano players attempted to calm their supporters who were fighting with home fans at the Marcelo Bielsa stadium in Rosario, 300km north-west of Buenos Aires, in Friday night's match. Watch YouTube video of the incident "The cops bashed Read more [...]

President Cristina Fernandez unveiling the Condor Operation flag in Congress The Argentine leader spoke for 3 hours and 40 minutes, but time ‘was short’, she admitted “Argentina claims again to the UK, in the presence of all Read more [...]

A United States court of appeals gave Argentina until March 29 to submit a plan for the repayment of $1.33 billion in debt that the country defaulted on 11 years ago. N.M.L. Capital, a subsidiary of the New York-based hedge fund Elliott Management, is leading a lawsuit among bondholders who refused Argentina’s 2005 and 2010 debt swaps. Ninety-three percent of creditors agreed to the restructuring in which debt stemming from Argentina’s $100 billion default was exchanged for new issues at 35 Read more [...]

The Black Sticks women have fallen just short in their deciding test against Argentina, after producing some of their best hockey of the week. Argentina won 1-0 in Rosario via a first-half goal from Delfina Merino. The result gave the home side the five-match series 2-1, with two draws. It was a frustrating outcome for the New Zealanders, who impressed during the second-half against the world's second-ranked team. Coach Mark Hager says the match was similar to the 3-3 draw in the fourth Read more [...]

In 2007, after more than a decade of investigations, Argentine prosecutors obtained Interpol arrest warrants for six suspects and formally blamed Hezbollah for staging the attack and Iran for financing it. But bizarrely, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, abruptly switched course last month and reached an agreement with the Iranian government that would set up a “truth commission” of international legal experts to analyze evidence from the bombings. The agreement, Read more [...]

On other topics, Fernandez defended the joint Argentine-Iranian “truth commission” that she hopes will solve Argentina’s worst terrorist attack, the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. The diplomatic effort deeply concerns Jewish leaders. “This has been a decade won by the Argentines,” she declared, providing rosy numbers on many aspects of Argentine society. “This is a decade won, not in terms of elections or party politics, but in the social recuperation, Read more [...]

President Cristina Fernandez opened congress Friday with a marathon, 3 1/2-hour speech describing her government's "victorious decade" in power and defending her management at a time of falling confidence in Argentina's economy. She also announced a major effort to reform Argentina's sclerotic judiciary — a plan that deeply worries her opponents. With congress firmly controlled by her party and allies, and many executive branch initiatives simply Read more [...]

Tomas Berdych saved three match points before upsetting defending champion Roger Federer 3-6, 7-6 (8), 6-4 Friday to earn a spot in the final of the Dubai Championships against Novak Djokovic. Top-ranked Djokovic rallied past fourth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the other semifinal. Berdych broke to go up 3-2 in the third set, only for Federer to save two match points before holding for 5-4. But the sixth-ranked Berdych finished Read more [...]

President Cristina Fernandez had long vowed never to pay anything to the plaintiffs she calls “vulture funds,” which she accuses of trying to ruin Argentina’s recovery from its 2002 economic collapse. But in a speech to Congress on Friday, she endorsed the compromise offer of a new debt swap, which had been floated in December by her Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino.She said Argentina would pay the plaintiffs, but at terms no better than those the vast majority of Argentina’s defaulted debt Read more [...]

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