Jerusalem said what it wanted to say about the Argentinean-Iranian agreement to establish a “truth committee” to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing, and will now avoid getting into a nasty public “ping-pong” with Buenos Aires over the matter, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.The spokesman’s comment came after Buenos Aires responded angrily to Israel’s summoning of its ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, where Israel protested the move.The Read more [...]

An attempt by Chevron Corp. to unfreeze its assets was dismissed Wednesday by an appeals court in Argentina, where the winners of a $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador are suing to force the oil company to pay. Plaintiffs' attorney Pablo Fajardo told The Associated Press that the court refused to lift an embargo that a lower-court judge imposed in November in the case, which involves oil contamination left after Texaco Corp. pulled Read more [...]

Jerusalem said what it wanted to say about the Argentinean-Iranian agreement to establish a “truth committee” to investigate the 1994 AMIA bombing, and will now avoid getting into a nasty public “ping-pong” with Buenos Aires over the matter, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.The spokesman’s comment came after Buenos Aires responded angrily to Israel’s summoning of its ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, where Israel protested the move.The Read more [...]

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BASF SE’s (BAS) Wintershall, Germany’s largest oil producer, is seeking partners to develop a shale- rock deposit in Argentina after the country increased prices for natural gas. The company, based in Kassel, Germany, plans to sell a stake in its CN-V block in Neuquen province to divide investment costs, Jurgen Schuster, vice-president for ventures, said in an interview in Bogota today, declining to name potential buyers. It also expects to start production at the country’s Vega Pleyade Read more [...]

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Buenos Aires, Jan 30 (IANS) Paraguayan footballer Juan Manuel Iturbe from Portugal’s FC Porto has been loaned to Argentina’s River Plate on a six-month deal. Iturbe, 19, announced the loan on Twitter, while River Plate’s Vice President, Diego Turnes, also confirmed the news when interviewed by local radio station “La Red” Tuesday, reports Xinhua. “We are all very glad because we reached an agreement. After long negotiations with Porto, we finally signed the player,” said Read more [...]

A lack of resolve following the 1992 bombing of Israel’s Embassy might be what led to the even deadlier attack two years later at the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, a senior Foreign Ministry official told Argentina’s ambassador on Tuesday.Yitzhak Shoham, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director-general for Latin America, summoned ambassador Atilio Norberto Molteni to protest Buenos Aires’s decision to establish a “truth commission” with Iran to investigate Read more [...]

01/29/2013| 09:42pm US/Eastern By Taos Turner BUENOS AIRES--Shares of Argentina's state-run oil company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA) surged Tuesday, posting sharp gains both here and in New York, on a day in which the South American country's energy stocks rallied. YPF's New York-traded shares rose almost 11% to close at $17.45 while they rose 9.3% in Buenos Aires to end the day at ARS130.66. YPF declined to comment on the gains. But the surge was surely music to the ears of Chief Executive Read more [...]

A lack of resolve following the 1992 bombing of Israel’s Embassy might be what led to the even deadlier attack two years later at the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, a senior Foreign Ministry official told Argentina’s ambassador on Tuesday.Yitzhak Shoham, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director-general for Latin America, summoned ambassador Atilio Norberto Molteni to protest Buenos Aires’s decision to establish a “truth commission” with Iran to investigate Read more [...]