AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Scientists have found a rare fossil of a previously unknown saber-toothed, squirrel-like creature in Argentina, providing new clues to how small mammals lived among dinosaurs more than 93 million years ago, AP (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA - Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won re-election Sunday, in a landslide victory that left her
nearest opponent more than 35 points behind.
With 50 per cent of voting stations reporting, (...)
The Saudi ambassador to Argentina Turki Almadhi held a reception party today to mark his country's national day.
The event was attended by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Deputy Minister of Agriculture in addition to a number of parliament members and (...)
A magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook the central Argentine province of Santiago del Estero Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake took place at a depth of about 592 kilometres (...)
A magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook the central Argentine province of Santiago del Estero Friday. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, as dpa reported.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake took place at a depth of about (...)
President Cristina Fernandez said Monday that keeping Argentina's economy growing despite the global consumption slowdown is her top priority as she looks forward to what seems like a certain re-election in October, according to AP.
Fernandez got (...)
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez led the country's primary election on Sunday with more than 45 percent of the vote, putting her on course for re-election in October, an exit poll pubished by TV station C5N said, according to (...)
Ash releases from a Chilean volcano led Friday to the cancellation of more flights in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, according to dpa.
Ezeiza and Jorge Newbery airports in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area were not operational, due to a new (...)
After an "east-west circumnavigation" of the
globe, a cloud of volcanic ash returned to its origin country, Chile,
and was disrupting flights there on Saturday, dpa reported.
Flights were cancelled in Chile and neighboring Argentina, where
the (...)
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner called Britain a fading empire after Prime Minister David Cameron reasserted control of the Falkland Islands, UPI reported.
After a Falkland Islander whose father helped fight Argentina in the 1982 war embraced (...)
Buenos Aires' two airports reopened
Wednesday, after two days of no activity due to a cloud of ash from a
Chilean volcano, dpa reported.
Montevideo airport also reopened late Tuesday.
Elsewhere, operations at Australia's Perth airport had to (...)
Airline passengers in Australia, New Zealand
and Argentina had another frustrating day Tuesday as an ash cloud
from a Chilean volcano continued to spread in the world's southern
hemisphere, according to dpa.
The Caulle volcanic cordon in the (...)
Ash from a volcano eruption in Chile continued to ground air travel across southern South America Saturday, UPI quoted airport officials as saying.
Flights out of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Porto Alegre and Florianopolis in (...)
Flights to and from Buenos Aires' two
commercial airports remained cancelled Friday, due to a cloud of ash
from the Chilean volcanic Caulle, some 1,600 kilometres away, dpa reported.
Seven other airports across Argentina remained closed.
A (...)
A twin-engine commercial airplane crashed
Wednesday night in southern Argentina's Patagonia region, killing
all 22 people on board. All the victims were Argentine nationals, according to dpa.
"A disaster," Dr Ismael Ali, director of the (...)
A Sol Air Lines plane carrying 22 people crashed and exploded Wednesday in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, killing all on board.
According to AP, Sol Air Lines said its Flight 5248 carrying three crew members and 19 passengers, including a (...)
Argentina's National University of La Plata is joining hands with NASA and Dassault Systems Solutions in a project that will see the Argentine engineering and aeronautics experts collaborating in the building of a climate change monitoring (...)
Awwal 14, 1432 H/Feb 17, 2011, SPA -- A train accident near the Argentine capital Buenos Aires Wednesday claimed the lives of at least three passengers, fire and rescue officials said.
More than 70 passengers were injured, some of them seriously, (...)
Awwal 03, 1432 H/Feb 06, 2011, SPA -- Relatives of activists occupying a posh Easter Island hotel say Chilean police have raided and removed the last of the indigenous protesters. They have been battling for ancestral lands and a share of profits (...)
A strong earthquake has struck in northern Argentina, but it was not immediately clear if there were any injuries or damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that the magnitude-7.0 quake hit at 6:56 a.m. about 150 kilometers (115 miles) (...)
One person died and at least five others were
injured Wednesday when a petrol station exploded in the western
Argentine province of Mendoza, local authorities said.
The accident happened in the town of Rodeo de la Cruz, 15
kilometres from (...)
Argentine energy company YPF will resume operations at its oilfields in the Patagonia region after workers agreed to end a strike that lasted more than two weeks, the company said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
The labor dispute forced YPF, a (...)
Qa'dah 19, 1431 / Oct. 27, 2010, SPA -- In the affluent Argentine suburb of Palermo, the two minarets of King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center - named after the late Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz - may Allah have mercy on (...)
Qa'dah 19, 1431 H/Oct 27, 2010, SPA -- Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner,
husband of current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, died
Wednesday at his home in the southern Argentine town of El Calafate,
according to media reports (...)
Qa'dah 12, 1431 H/Oct 20, 2010, SPA -- President Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchner
of the Republic of Argentina opened yesterday evening - Local time in Argentina - the 3rd World Congress of News Agencies, which was hosted by the National News Agency (...)