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Culture and trade talks over Argentinian cuisine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 11:39 AM

Annalisa Burgos and Argentinian Ambassador to the Philippines Roberto Bosch dine on La Cabrera's finest spread while discussing how Argentinian culture and agriculture can bring the Latin American country closer to Filipinos. Read more »

Muniz wins World Games gold, Olympic hosts Japan claim first medals

Reuters
Posted at Sep 19 09:16 PM

TOKYO - Argentina's Santiago Muniz won the men's gold medal at the World Surfing Games on Wednesday, while Kanoa Igarashi and Shun Murakami claimed Japan's first ever medals in the competition.   Read more »

Crisis-hit Argentina hopes for improved IMF deal this month

Daina Beth Solomon, Reuters
Posted at Sep 05 08:08 AM

Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne met IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Washington and said they were working together to improve a standby finance deal agreed with the IMF's executive board in June. Read more »

Asian shares fall under pressure from trade, emerging markets worries

Andrew Galbraith, Reuters
Posted at Sep 04 08:56 AM

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.2 percent after European shares ended mostly flat, though a weak British pound helped to lift London's blue-chip FTSE almost 1 percent. Read more »

Argentina to announce new economic measures after peso freefall

Hugh Bronstein and Jorge Otaola, Reuters
Posted at Aug 31 08:04 AM

South America's third largest economy will target a fiscal deficit for 2019 that is lower than the current target of 1.3 percent of gross domestic product in order to reduce the government's need to go to debt markets. Read more »

IMF studying Argentina request for early help as peso crashes

Hugh Bronstein and Jorge Otaola, Reuters
Updated as of Aug 30 01:08 PM

Nerves are frayed in Latin America's No. 3 economy as it struggles to break free from its notorious cycle of once-a-decade financial crises. The last one, which was punctuated by a 2002 debt default, tossed millions of middle-class Argentines into poverty. Read more »

Argentina awaits crucial Senate vote on abortion

Alexandre Peyrille, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 09 06:09 AM

After Ireland voted to legalize abortion in May, will Argentina, another traditionally Catholic country, do the same? Read more »

Pacquiao eyes '2 or 3 fights' more after Matthysse win

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 16 10:12 PM

GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Manny Pacquiao said Monday he was good for "two or three" more fights, naming Terence Crawford, Vasyl Lomachenko or Floyd Mayweather as possible opponents a day after winning a new world title. Read more »

Argentina's Pitana to referee World Cup final

Reuters
Posted at Jul 13 06:34 PM

MOSCOW - Experienced Argentine official Nestor Pitana will referee the World Cup final between France and Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday, an uncontroversial decision which rewards his authoritative performances in Russia. Read more »

As inflation soars, Facebook drives trading in Argentina's barter clubs

Nicolás Misculin, Reuters
Posted at Jul 05 11:58 PM

At an abandoned train station in Buenos Aires' working-class suburb of San Miguel, hundreds of Argentines gather with bags of clothes, rice, flour and sugar to trade. Read more »

FIFA rebukes Maradona over 'robbery' comments

Reuters
Posted at Jul 05 09:13 PM

MOSCOW - FIFA says it "strongly rebukes" Argentina great Diego Maradona's comments that England's win over Colombia was a robbery and that referee Mark Geiger was not up to the task.   Read more »

Football: Maradona offers to coach Argentina for free

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 03 10:58 PM

Diego Maradona wants to return to the position of Argentina coach and is willing to work for free, as Jorge Sampaoli faces pressure to resign following their World Cup travails. Read more »

WATCH: Here's how Nico Bolzico reacted to Argentina's loss to France

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 01 07:47 PM

Nico Bolzico surely did not expect his home country, Argentina's, defeat in Saturday's FIFA World Cup match, to no less than France, his wife's team. Read more »

FIFA World Cup: Maradona 'fine' after scare, chided for obscene gesture

Reuters
Posted at Jun 27 06:02 PM

ST PETERSBURG - Argentina great Diego Maradona said on Wednesday he was fine after appearing to take ill during the South Americans' roller-coaster World Cup win over Nigeria on Tuesday, but found himself in hot water again after making an obscene gesture at the game. Read more »

Concern over Maradona after health scare in Argentina thriller

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 11:25 AM

Diego Maradona roared and gesticulated through every anguished second of Argentina's rollercoaster World Cup victory over Nigeria on Tuesday before triggering alarm with a health scare after the final whistle. Read more »

Argentine fans weep as World Cup dream fades

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 22 09:11 AM

BUENOS AIRES - The party at the Buenos Aires fanzone fell flat as a crowd expecting a Messi-inspired Argentina World Cup revival could only watch in horror at as the nadir of Nizhny Novgorod unfolded. Read more »

FIFA World Cup: Croatia routs Lionel Messi's Argentina

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 22 05:02 AM

Lionel Messi's World Cup dream was left hanging by a thread as Croatia powered into the last 16 with a 3-0 rout of Argentina here Thursday.  Read more »

Global stocks falter as trade war fears deepen

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 19 08:15 AM

Investors were still jittery following Friday's tit-for-tat tariff announcements by the US and China. Markets fear a further escalation could derail the global economy. Read more »

Dutch Queen Maxima's younger sister dead in Argentina

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 11:55 AM

Ines Zorreguieta, 33, who reportedly had been battling depression and mental issues, was found dead by a friend in her apartment in the Almagro district of Buenos Aires. Read more »

Argentine priest jailed for 25 years for abuse of minors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 22 05:47 AM

Prosecutors said the victims, aged 13 and 14, were boarders at the seminary school and cut off from their families, whom they saw once a month.  Read more »