BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - (AFP) - Argentina is studying an offer from Iran to cooperate with the investigation into a 1994 bombing that leveled a Jewish charity building, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said Monday on the 17th anniversary of the attack.
Eighty-five people were killed and 300 wounded in the bombing that destroyed the seven-story AMIA building.
Argentine officials allege [...]
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - (AFP) - Argentina on Sunday said it welcomed as "positive" Iran's offer to cooperate in the investigation of the worst terror strike on Argentine soil -- the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities building.
"If it were to be carried out, it would mean a singular and very positive step forward because the law and justice are the only road to fighting terror," Foreign [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran is ready to cooperate with Argentina over a 1994 bombing attack on a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry announced on Saturday.
Tehran, suspected by Argentina of being behind the attack, is "ready for a constructive dialogue and to cooperate with the Argentine government to shed all possible light within the [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Argentina legend Diego Maradona is to take over as coach next season at Dubai's Al-Wasl, the club announced on Monday
"Al-Wasl Sports Club is proud to announce the appointment of Diego Armando Maradona as head coach of Al-Wasl Football Club, in a momentous development that will see the football legend lead the team for the next two seasons," the club said in a statemen [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Sunday oversaw the signing in Kuwait of seven accords to boost cooperation with the oil-rich emirate at the start of a two-day visit.
Kirchner, on her first trip to the Gulf state, was greeted at the airport by Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and other leaders, the official KUNA news agency said.
After the two leaders held [...]
BERLIN (AFP) - German intelligence knew Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding out in Argentina eight years before Israeli agents kidnapped him in 1960, the Bild daily cited newly released documents as saying.
"SS colonel Eichmann ... is living in Argentina under the false name of Clemens. The editor of the 'Der Weg' German newspaper in Argentina knows E.'s address," according to a 1952 do [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Argentine football icon Diego Maradona plans to visit Iran two years after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hailed him as "His Excellency" for his support of the Islamic republic, a report said on Saturday.
"Maradona showed interest in visiting Iran some two years ago, but due to his engagement as Argentina's coach, he could not come," the ILNA news agency quoted the head of I [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner Friday proposed to Iran to try suspects accused of a string of anti-Jewish attacks in the 1990s in a third country.
In a speech to the UN General Assembly, Kirchner called on Tehran to "agree in a joint accord on a third country where fair trials could be held."
She said such a solution was not without precedent, pointing to the case of th [...]
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - The presidents of Argentina and Syria Friday traded words of support for their respective territorial claims on Britain's Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, and the Golan Heights Israel annexed in 1967.
The mutual back-patting came at the close of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's first tour of Latin America aimed at furthering friendly relations with Venezuela [...]
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