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2017 implosion of ARA San Juan submarine was 'foreseeable,' trial hears

04-03-2026 15:37 Trial into shocking submarine tragedy that killed 44 sailors in November 2017, the country's worst naval disaster in decades, gets underway.

ARA San Juan trial to determine criminal liability begins

03-03-2026 18:51 Court proceedings get underway in a Federal Criminal Oral Court in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province.

The football season has started – much to Chiqui Tapia’s relief

24-01-2026 07:02 The 2026 Liga Profesional de Fútbol is underway – and AFA chief Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia has surely been counting down the days until the distractions on the pitch kick off.

by Dan Edwards

Crime ranking shows ‘security incidents’ up 20% in Argentina last year

22-12-2025 13:47 National report by private Verisure firm shows 20 percent increase in “security incidents” over past 12 months; Province of Tucumán leads crime ranking with 65% surge, with sustained growth in Córdoba, Mendoza and the Atlantic coast.

Court to define how new trial into Maradona’s death will proceed

02-12-2025 14:31 Tuesday’s hearing is preliminary. A previous trial was cancelled in May after it emerged that one of the case’s judges had taken part in a secret documentary about the proceedings.

Milei seeks to accelerate copper boom by easing glacier rules

13-11-2025 18:38 President plans to modify regulations that protect Andean glaciers in order to unlock tens of billions of dollars of mining investments.

Two films by two Argentine female directors star at San Sebastián

23-09-2025 18:50 Two productions – Belén, directed by Dolores Fonzi, and Las corrientes, by Milagros Mumenthaler – were the stars of Tuesday’s schedule at San Sebastián Film Festival.

A girl who talks to animals – Iván Fund’s latest film stuns San Sebastián

23-09-2025 18:13 'El mensaje,' Iván Fund’s new movie, is in the running for the top prize at the prestigious San Sebastián Film Festival.

An interactive Dracula

14-08-2025 17:41 ‘Dracula – a Gothic tale reimagined’; by The Suburban Players; Directed by Peter Macfarlane, MBE; Centro Cultural San Isidro, Av. del Libertador 16138, San Isidro.

by Michael Soltys

Peronist list closure: unity, local names, strategy of division

11-08-2025 17:50 In half of Argentina's provinces, the Fuerza Patria banner managed to bind all the Peronist options together, but in other territories unity will have a different name. 

Maradona death trial collapses in scandal as court orders restart

29-05-2025 13:04 Trial into the death of Diego Armando Maradona declared null and void by San Isidro court following the scandal involving Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges overseeing the case.

Scandalous scenes as Maradona death trial is thrown into disarray

28-05-2025 12:33 The fate of the trial into Diego Maradona's will be decided on Thursday, following a scandal involving one of the judges over her participation in a documentary about the case.

Four dead and 16 injured as coach and lorry collide

13-05-2025 13:49 Head-on crash on Route 3 near San Miguel del Monte, Buenos Aires Province, leaves at least four dead and 16 injured.

San Luis: Poggi’s ruling coalition defeats Rodríguez Saá’s Peronists

12-05-2025 18:35 Ahora San Luis front, led by Governor Claudio Poggi, defeats Peronist coalition of former provincial governor Alberto Rodríguez Saá. With 80% of votes counted, the ruling coalition has 46.8%, comfortably ahead of Frente Justicialista.

Maradona death trial: Diego was not fit for home care, says doctor

30-04-2025 00:20 Fernando Villarejo, head of Clínica Olivos' intensive care unit, says he expressed his opposition to home care.

Not so saintly behaviour at Pope’s beloved San Lorenzo

25-04-2025 09:04 An unseemly mess has broken out at Francis’ favourite football club – it is impossible to escape the irony that this storm broke right at the moment the Cuervos' most ardent fan finally passed on.

by Dan Edwards

Maradona's daughter says doctors could have prevented star's death

16-04-2025 10:16 Dalma Maradona accuses doctors of deception and neglect as late footballer's final days come under scrutiny in emotional trial.

‘I’m not well,’ Maradona told a doctor, weeks before death

11-04-2025 09:38 Doctor Flavio Tunessi said the late footballing icon had told him "I’m not well," a few weeks before star's death.

Two killed as private jet overshoots runway in San Fernando

18-12-2024 15:22 Tragic accident in Buenos Aires Province; Private jet misses runaway and crashes into houses near small airport of San Fernando. Two pilots aboard the aircraft perished in tragedy.

Chile's 'transplant' footballers champion organ donation

13-11-2024 10:46 Twenty transplant recipients, most of them kidney organ recipients, make up an amateur football team known as the "Chilean Transplant Team."