THE Government was on the verge of withdrawing UK teams from the 1982 World Cup with players "revolted" at the thought of playing then-enemy Argentina, newly-released documents have revealed. Sports minister at the time Neil Macfarlane urged Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to scratch England, Scotland and Northern Ireland after they qualified for the tournament in Spain. In April - two months before kick-off - Macfarlane said there should be "no sporting contact" on British soil with Read more [...]

She called it, simply, the worst moment of her life. It came in March 1982 during the days before the Falklands War, after Argentina established an unauthorized presence on Britain's South Georgia island amid talk of a possible invasion of the Falklands, long held by Britain. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher realized there was little that Britain could do immediately to establish firm control of the contested islands, and feared Britain would Read more [...]

(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — It’s been a decade since Argentina tarnished its reputation worldwide and became an economic misfit by engaging in the biggest sovereign debt default in history, yet it is still haunted by the old bonds. Although Argentina’s government restructured nearly all of the debt defaulted in the 2001 economic crisis, President Cristina Fernandez finds herself in a bitter U.S. court fight with holdout creditors that has raised the threat of severe financial Read more [...]

Argentina's highest penal court confirmed a stay on proceedings against an ex-president over charges that he failed to prevent the killing of protesters during the country's worst economic crisis. Fernando De la Rua declared a state of siege on Dec. 20, 2001, seizing special powers to deal with rioting and looting. Five protesters were killed and 100 were injured during clashes with police. The Federal Court of Cassation unanimously ruled Thursday Read more [...]

Argentina's highest penal court confirmed a stay on proceedings against an ex-president over charges that he failed to prevent the killing of protesters during the country's worst economic crisis. Fernando De la Rua declared a state of siege on Dec. 20, 2001, seizing special powers to deal with rioting and looting. Five protesters were killed and 100 were injured during clashes with police. The Federal Court of Cassation unanimously ruled Thursday Read more [...]

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HOUSTON — NEOS GeoSolutions, Inc. today announced that it has delivered the final results for Phase I of its integrated geological and geophysical study in Argentina’s Neuquén Basin to the project’s underwriters, a group that includes a North American supermajor. The company has also secured underwriting from prior Neuquén neoBASIN™ underwriters to expand the program in an adjacent Phase III area by an additional 10,000 sqkm. Once Phase Read more [...]

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Chile's national emergency office, ONEMI, raised the state of alert in the Biobio region of the country on Sunday to red, according to the AP news agency. However it did not issue an evacuation order as there are no towns in the area at risk if a full-blown eruption takes place. For the few hundred people in the danger zone, officials were distributing bottled water and facemasks. The country's Geology and Mining Service stopped short of predicting a major eruption in the immediate future. "The Read more [...]