Argentina 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Argentina defeated Slovenia 2-0 in a warm-up but not before stirring up a political controversy ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Argentina defeated Slovenia 2-0 in a warm-up but not before stirring up a political controversy ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

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.

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.

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.