A New York court ordered Argentina on Friday to explain how it would issue new bonds rather than comply with a $1.3 billion cash judgment to resolve debts unpaid for more than decade. Two days after a key oral hearing in NML Capital Ltd. vs Argentina, the appellate judges asked just how, when and at what interest rate Argentina would pay installments on these new bonds. President Cristina Fernandez had long vowed never to pay anything to the plaintiffs Read more [...]

Issei Kato / ReutersJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his policy speech at the lower house of parliament in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2013. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose country is in conflict with China over islets in the East China Sea, cited former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reflections on the 1982 Falkland Islands war to stress the importance of the rule of law at sea. During a speech to parliament on Thursday, Abe said Japan’s national interests “lie Read more [...]

Maze eyes Maier's record points haul

Spaniard Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer remained on course to meet in the final of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel as both men breezed through their quarter-finals. ATP Delray Beach. Click here to bet. Rafael Nadal: Poweed into the last four Top seed and three-time Read more [...]

Ding plays stunning 'Newton's Cradle' cannon

The Black Sticks have a chance to win their five-game test series against Argentina after drawing the fourth international 3-3 in Rosario today. Goals to striker Katie Glynn and midfielders Anita Punt and Gemma Flynn ensured the game against the Olympic silver medallists would continue New Zealand's improvement as the series has advanced. New Zealand lost the first international 4-1, Read more [...]

DUBAI: Fourth-seed Juan Martin Del Potro eased into the semi-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships at the Dubai Tennis Stadium on Thursday.The world number seven from Argentina took one hour and two minutes to defeat the German qualifier Daniel Brands 6-4, 6-2.In the first set both the players held their serve with Del Potro leading 5-4. The Argentine, however, broke the German’s serve at that point and clinched Read more [...]

AMIA Jewish Community Centre President, Guillermo Borger, harshly criticized the approval of the Argentina-Iran accord, which occurred last night at press time and after nearly 20 hours of debate, and warned that the institution will take the case to the Supreme Court to stop it. "We're taking it to all possible instances in both domestic and international courts", Borger told TN news channel, to then reveal that the AMIA “will make a presentation to the Supreme Court seeking for invalidation Read more [...]

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Argentina's congress approved a treaty with Iran on Thursday aimed at breaking a stalemate in the investigation of the South American country's worst terrorist attack. Argentine prosecutors believe Iran's government ordered the 1994 Jewish center bombing that killed 85 people, and put a list of high-ranking Iranian officials on Interpol's watch list for years. Iran denies any role in the bombing, and has never allowed the suspects to be questioned. The Read more [...]