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Prosecutors convene medical board to rule on Maradona's death

23-02-2021 13:17 Prosecutors to convene a medical board on March 8 to decide whether or not Diego Armando Maradona received proper medical treatment before his death.

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Maradona death probe widens to include nurses, psychologist

09-02-2021 09:17 A psychologist and two nurses – one male, one female – who helped care for Diego Maradona before his death have been added to a widening involuntary manslaughter probe.

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Maradona suffered from liver, kidney, heart disorders, says autopsy

24-12-2020 03:59 Report says footballer had no alcohol or narcotics in his body at time of his death.

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Investigators await test results as fallout from Maradona’s death rumbles on

03-12-2020 23:59 Toxicological studies, heart tests, swabs, investigations and questions of care – the ‘circus’ surrounding the death of footballing great Diego Maradona continues to grow, but still no indictments.

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Leopoldo Luque denies wrongdoing as Maradona death probe heats up

30-11-2020 00:30 The home and offices of Diego Maradona’s personal doctor, Leopoldo Luque, were raided on Sunday as the investigation into the late football legend's death took a dramatic twist.

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Messi takes Newell's to Camp Nou as Maradona tributes continue

30-11-2020 00:06 Clubs across Europe continued to pay tribute to Diego Maradona on Sunday, with Lionel Messi taking a little bit of Newell's Old Boys with particularly poignant moments in Italy and Spain where the Argentine played.

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Tears and memories as Argentina's top flight returns without Maradona

29-11-2020 08:41 The first games in Argentina's top flight since the death of Diego Maradona kicked off Saturday amid tears and memories, with the club he last coached notching up a victory in tribute to the footballing genius.

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Sport pays tribute to Maradona with tears, applause, silence, banners and song

29-11-2020 08:12 On the first weekend of sporting action since the death of Diego Maradona, sports, leagues and teams round the world on Saturday paid tribute to the Argentine football great.

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Workers who took photos with Maradona’s dead body apologise

27-11-2020 23:30 Employees at a morgue who photographs posing alongside Diego Maradona’s dead boy have apologised for the distress they have caused, while at least one is believed to have lost his job.

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Maradona's death may trigger family inheritance battle

27-11-2020 22:54 Diego Maradona's tormented private life, with its tangled relationships and paternity suits, suggests distributing his inheritance will be a complex task for lawyers bracing for claims from a slew of children – those he recognised and those he didn't.

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Maradona finally laid to rest after chaotic day of emotion and drama

27-11-2020 04:25 Huge crowds bade a grief-filled adieu Thursday to Diego Maradona during a farewell that at times descended into chaos.

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Chaotic scenes at Maradona's wake as police clash with fans

26-11-2020 16:33 Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in clashes with football fans near the Casa Rosada on Thursday, as chaotic scenes were seen at Diego Maradona's wake.

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Outrage as photos of Maradona's dead body in coffin leak online

26-11-2020 15:58 Social networks erupt in anger after images leaked online of Diego Armando Maradona’s dead body in his coffin. Photos show an individual, believed to be a worker at the morgue, posing for an image alongside funeral casket, with late footballer's face visible.

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Mourners bid final farewell to Maradona at the Casa Rosada

26-11-2020 10:49 Mourners, many in tears and many wearing the World Cup winner's number 10 Argentina shirt, flock to the Casa Rosada, where the national hero's coffin was draped in the sky-blue-and-white national flag.

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Argentina prepares for a huge and emotional farewell to Maradona

26-11-2020 01:59 Officials make preparations for Maradona's wake at Casa Rosada. Government estimates as many as one million people will want to pay their respects to legendary late footballer.

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Nation mourns Maradona, the most human of Gods

26-11-2020 00:29 Nation plunged into grief by the death of its favourite son, a sublimely gifted sporting hero they saw as "the most human of Gods."

Gracias Diego

Buenos Aires erupts in applause for late great Diego Maradona

26-11-2020 00:09 Buenos Aires erupted in applause on Wednesday night, as porteños paid tribute to the late Diego Armando Maradona.

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'Very sad day' – Argentina mourns painful loss of Maradona

25-11-2020 17:04 Diego Maradona's sudden death from a cardiac arrest unleashed an outpouring of emotion in Argentina on Wednesday, as politicians, fans and former teammates paid tribute to the late legendary footballer.

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Death of 'eternal' Maradona plunges football world into mourning

25-11-2020 15:30 The football world united to pay tribute to one of the game's greatest-ever players after Albiceleste legend Diego Maradona died at the age of 60 on Wednesday.

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Maradona: In his own words and the words of others

25-11-2020 14:52 Diego Maradona, who died Wednesday at the age of 60, will forever be remembered as one of the greatest footballers of all time. He'll also be remembered as one of the most controversial.

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Diego Maradona, a divine talent with more than a touch of the devil

25-11-2020 14:47 Diego Maradona was football's archetypal troubled genius, a world-beating player whose life and career scaled the most dazzling heights but also plumbed the darkest depths.

BREAKING NEWS

Diego Armando Maradona dies after suffering cardiac arrest

25-11-2020 13:40 Diego Armando Maradona, the legendary number 10 who guided Argentina to World Cup glory, thrilling the world in ways no other footballer did before him, has died at the age of 60.

Global pandemic

As virus swamps Peru, Venezuelan migrants collect the dead

22-05-2020 13:30 Despite strict measures to control the coronavirus, Peru has become one of the countries worst hit by the Covid-19 disease. With more than 104,000 cases and 3,000 deaths, Peru was 12th in the world in numbers of confirmed diagnoses Wednesday, more than reported by China and just behind India.

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Covid-19: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

08-05-2020 16:06 In the depths of quarantine tedium, this writer unearthed two movies whose titles have an uncanny pertinence in these surreal times.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

'Tex' Harris, US diplomat who detailed dictatorship's crimes, dies at 81

25-02-2020 13:04 US diplomat, who was sent to Buenos Aires in 1977, famously opened the US Embassy's doors to relatives of those disappeared by the dictatorship and created a detailed catalogue of the 1976-1983 military regime's human rights abuses.

Buenos Aires Province

Two young girls killed, scores more injured in bus accident on Ruta 2

28-11-2019 10:33 Accident happened as the bus, carrying students aged 11 to 12 on a field trip, negotiated a curve near Lezama, Buenos Aires Province, around 6am local time. Two young girls, aged 12, confirmed as fatalities.