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Lionel Messi Insists Hong Kong No-Show Was Due To Injury, Not Politics
Argentine football star Lionel Messi insisted on Monday that his absence from a match in Hong Kong two weeks ago that drew the ire of spectators was not a snub but prompted by injury.
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Argentina Cancel FIFA World Cup Warm-Up Match Against Israel After Gaza Violence
Argentina have cancelled a World Cup warm-up match against Israel under political pressure over Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, the media reported.
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Tough Love: The Psychology Of Argentina's Relationship With Messi
Like neurotic parents, Argentines swung from criticism to unconditional love for their star footballer Lionel Messi this week, providing the soccer-mad nation's many therapists with rich material for psychoanalysis.
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'Crazy' Ex-Minister's Bags Of Cash And Weapons Scandalise Argentina
It's been a heck of a week for Jose Lopez, an Argentine ex-cabinet minister who was arrested trying to hide bags stuffed with cash and jewels at a monastery.
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Pope Rejects Argentine President's Donation Of 16,666,000 Pesos Because Of The '666' Part
An already tense relationship between the world's two most powerful Argentines became more so recently when the pope rejected a sizable charitable donation to an organization he backs from Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri. The reason? In addition to possible concerns over the donation's political overtones, a communication from the pope to the...
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Argentina Votes on Big Economic, Political Change
Argentines vote tody in a presidential runoff that could end 12 years of leftist government and see the pro-business opposition seize the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy.
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Argentina asks US to Include 1994 Bombing in Iran Nuclear Talks
Argentina wants the United States to help it get to the bottom of a deadly 1994 bombing at the heart of a current political scandal by including the crime in the US nuclear talks with Iran, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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FIFA World Cup: Argentina Make Falklands Protest After Win in Warm-up Tie
Argentina defeated Slovenia 2-0 in a warm-up but not before stirring up a political controversy ahead of the FIFA World Cup.
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Next wave of super-rich heading for London as new crises bite
Political and financial upheaval in some of the world's largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London's supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth, data from a leading real estate agency showed on Friday.
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Both Messi and Maradona better than Pele: Camino
For an Argentine, it's always difficult to answer whether Lionel Messi is greater than Diego Maradona, but it's always politically right to say that both are better than their Brazilian rival Pele.
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Political undercurrent to Copa venues choice
A political undercurrent is running through the choice of venues for the Copa America and as World Cup qualifiers also loom the issue is becoming increasingly controversial.
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Lionel Messi Insists Hong Kong No-Show Was Due To Injury, Not Politics
Argentine football star Lionel Messi insisted on Monday that his absence from a match in Hong Kong two weeks ago that drew the ire of spectators was not a snub but prompted by injury.
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Argentina Cancel FIFA World Cup Warm-Up Match Against Israel After Gaza Violence
Argentina have cancelled a World Cup warm-up match against Israel under political pressure over Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza, the media reported.
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Tough Love: The Psychology Of Argentina's Relationship With Messi
Like neurotic parents, Argentines swung from criticism to unconditional love for their star footballer Lionel Messi this week, providing the soccer-mad nation's many therapists with rich material for psychoanalysis.
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'Crazy' Ex-Minister's Bags Of Cash And Weapons Scandalise Argentina
It's been a heck of a week for Jose Lopez, an Argentine ex-cabinet minister who was arrested trying to hide bags stuffed with cash and jewels at a monastery.
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Pope Rejects Argentine President's Donation Of 16,666,000 Pesos Because Of The '666' Part
An already tense relationship between the world's two most powerful Argentines became more so recently when the pope rejected a sizable charitable donation to an organization he backs from Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri. The reason? In addition to possible concerns over the donation's political overtones, a communication from the pope to the...
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Argentina Votes on Big Economic, Political Change
Argentines vote tody in a presidential runoff that could end 12 years of leftist government and see the pro-business opposition seize the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy.
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Argentina asks US to Include 1994 Bombing in Iran Nuclear Talks
Argentina wants the United States to help it get to the bottom of a deadly 1994 bombing at the heart of a current political scandal by including the crime in the US nuclear talks with Iran, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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FIFA World Cup: Argentina Make Falklands Protest After Win in Warm-up Tie
Argentina defeated Slovenia 2-0 in a warm-up but not before stirring up a political controversy ahead of the FIFA World Cup.
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Next wave of super-rich heading for London as new crises bite
Political and financial upheaval in some of the world's largest emerging economies is driving a new wave of rich migrants to London's supercharged property market as a place to park their wealth, data from a leading real estate agency showed on Friday.
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Both Messi and Maradona better than Pele: Camino
For an Argentine, it's always difficult to answer whether Lionel Messi is greater than Diego Maradona, but it's always politically right to say that both are better than their Brazilian rival Pele.
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Political undercurrent to Copa venues choice
A political undercurrent is running through the choice of venues for the Copa America and as World Cup qualifiers also loom the issue is becoming increasingly controversial.
