Argentina
15 Jun 2021
Argentina superstar Lionel Messi scored a stunning freekick but Chile hit back to earn a 1-1 draw in the Copa America on Monday.
5 Jun 2021
Veteran Argentina great Carlos Tevez announced on Friday he was quitting Boca Juniors and would no longer play football in his homeland, but stopped short of officially retiring.
4 Jun 2021
Lionel Messi scored a penalty but Argentina missed out on the chance to take over top spot of South American World Cup qualifying from rivals Brazil after a 1-1 draw with Chile on Thursday.
31 May 2021
Argentina's hosting of the Copa America football tournament has been suspended "in view of the current circumstances," CONMEBOL said on Sunday, as the country endures a record coronavirus surge.
29 May 2021
An Argentinian TV reporter left viewers completely baffled on Thursday after announcing that the famous English playwright William Shakespeare had just died five months after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. In what has been described as a comedy of errors, Noelia Novillo, a newsreader on Canal 26, mistook the 16th century playwright for William 'Bill' Shakespeare,…
29 May 2021
The interrogation of a medical team under formal investigation for manslaughter over the death of footballing legend Diego Maradona in Argentina last year has been delayed until June 14,
17 May 2021
Argentina is ready to host the Copa America, President Alberto Fernandez confirmed Sunday, despite the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed more than 70,000 people in his country.
25 Mar 2021
Diego Armando Maradona Junior, the Italian son of the late Argentine footballing legend, was awarded his father's nationality on Thursday.
11 Mar 2021
Hundreds of Argentine football fans demonstrated on Wednesday in Buenos Aires to demand justice for superstar player Diego Maradona, who died on November 25 in circumstances under investigation.
17 Feb 2021
Novak Djokovic claims a majority of tennis players do not want to continue with the season if it means going through multiple periods of quarantine, reports PA.
15 Feb 2021
Argentina's former president Carlos Menem, who marked his country with a neoliberal approach to the economy, died in a Buenos Aires clinic on Sunday at the age of 90.
14 Jan 2021
Argentina is set Thursday to become one of just a handful of Latin American countries to allow elective abortion, as neighbouring Chile initiates its own debate on decriminalizing a procedure denied most women on the continent.
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