Sponsored link: Search Right. IndiaProperty.com Buenos Aires: World No.7 and Argentine No.1 Juan Martin del Potro will skip the 2013 Davis Cup World Group opener against Germany Feb 1-3, captain Martin Jaite has said. Argentina were beaten 2-3 in this year's Davis Cup semifinals by the Czech Republic, the eventual champions, reports Xinhua."We sent emails to all the players likely to be selected and asked them to respond before Dec 10. Del Potro didn't answer. He then sent me an SMS Read more [...]

Sponsored link: Flats @ 15 Lacs. IndiaProperty.com Buenos Aires: Iraq's soccer federation has denied any interest in hiring former Argentine great Diego Maradona to coach its national team."There's no negotiation between the Iraqi soccer federation and Diego Maradona, and we don't have any intention of hiring him," the federation's deputy director, Abdul-Khaliq Masoud, told Argentina's official Telam news agency.An Argentine sports executive said on Thursday in Buenos Aires that Maradona Read more [...]

Chile issued a top-level red alert for its Copahue volcano, in the south on the Andean border with Argentina, as it rumbled to register a greater potential threat.The National Emergency Office issued a red alert but did not order evacuations as no towns are in the current risk area.“The intensity of seismic signals suggests the eruption in progress is on the smaller side (but) we are not ruling out the possibility that the activity could turn into a larger-scale eruption,” the Geology and Read more [...]

Chile issued a top-level red alert for its Copahue volcano, in the south on the Andean border with Argentina, as it rumbled to register a greater potential threat.The National Emergency Office issued a red alert but did not order evacuations as no towns are in the current risk area.“The intensity of seismic signals suggests the eruption in progress is on the smaller side (but) we are not ruling out the possibility that the activity could turn into a larger-scale eruption,” the Geology and Read more [...]

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Looters ransacked supermarkets in several Argentine cities, causing two deaths and evoking memories of widespread theft and riots that killed dozens during the country's worst economic crisis a decade ago. Santa Fe Province Security Minister Raul Lamberto described the attacks as simple acts of vandalism and not social protests. Lamberto said two people were killed by a sharp object and gunfire after attacks yesterday on about 20 supermarkets in the cities of Rosario and Villa Gobernador Galvez. Read more [...]

Police fired teargas and rubber bullets to stop dozens of stone-throwing youths from looting a supermarket owned by French retailer Carrefour near the capital, Buenos Aires, a day after the unrest erupted in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche. Government officials condemned the violence and sent 400 military police to the southern city, where raiders stormed a supermarket owned by the local unit of Wal-Mart and made off with flat-screen televisions and other goods. Officials said looters Read more [...]

Lamberto said two people were killed by a sharp object and gunfire after attacks early Friday on about 20 supermarkets in the cities of Rosario and Villa Gobernador Galvez. He declined to identify the victims or the attackers, but said 25 people were injured and 130 arrested during the looting about 190 miles northeast of Buenos Aires.Closer to the capital, riot police fired rubber bullets to drive off a mob that was trying to break into a supermarket in San Fernando, a town in Buenos Aires province.A Read more [...]

Argentina is protesting Britain's decision to name a vast swath of Antarctica as Queen Elizabeth Land. The foreign ministry has handed a formal protest note to British Ambassador John Freeman in Buenos Aires. The note rejects London's claim since 1908 to a chunk of Antarctic known as the British Antarctic Territory, and it criticizes what Argentina calls Britain's "imperialistic ambitions going back to ancient practices." Argentina has long claimed as its own the land named after the British monarch Read more [...]

Looters ransacked supermarkets in several Argentine cities Friday, causing two deaths and evoking memories of widespread theft and riots that killed dozens during the country's worst economic crisis a decade ago. Santa Fe Province Security Minister Raul Lamberto described the attacks on stores as simple acts of vandalism and not social protests. Lamberto said two people were killed by a sharp object and gunfire after attacks early Friday on Read more [...]