Argentina

• Monday, October 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Inflationary debate rages in Argentina; food CPI ranges 15%

  

  Prices in Buenos Aires supermarkets and groceries jumped 1.6% in August totaling 14.1% in the first eight months of the year according to reports from the controversial Argentine Statistics and Census Office, Indec.

• Monday, October 1st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Comfortable lead for Cristina K but 29% of voters undefined

  

  With only 28 days to Argentina's presidential election incumbent candidate Cristina Kirchner comfortably leads vote intention with 39.8%, and 28 points ahead of runner up Elisa Carrió, 11.7%, but there's still 22.7% undecided.

• Saturday, September 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina: Coppola robbed of 15 years of computer work

  

  Francis Ford Coppola, five-time Oscar-winning director of The Godfather trilogy and other films, knows how that feels. Yesterday he lamented the fact that he had lost computer data including his writings and family photographs going back 15 years in a robbery on his Argentine studios.

• Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Iran rejects Kirchner claims and points to Judiciary “corruption”

  Iran strongly rejected on Thursday Argentine President Nestor Kirchner's claim that the country failed to cooperate in a probe of a 1994 terror bombing in Buenos Aires which left hundreds dead and maimed.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands: Kirchner blasts British “obstinacy” in the UN

  

  British “obstinate reluctance” to dialogue with Argentina over the Falkland Islands sovereignty is “incompressible” said Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Tuesday in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “Queen Cristina's” travels trigger political controversy

  

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner overseas trips respond to her condition of elected Senator or First Lady and not as presidential candidate said Argentina's cabinet chief Alberto Fernandez against a background of mounting criticisms.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  In Argentina, the Campaign of 'Queen Cristina' Focuses on Global Relations

  

  With just over a month to go before voters will choose a new president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, or “Queen Cristina,” as she is widely known here, is living up to her nickname.

• Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' ocean bed dispute and lure for “Earth's last frontier”

  

  Argentina will object any British initiative to extend the “illegitimate occupation” of the Falkland Islands and its adjoining waters, in the event of such a decision, Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana was quoted on Monday by the Buenos Aires press from New York.

• Sunday, September 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina fury at UK bid for Falkland seas

  

  Argentina has reacted furiously to plans by Britain to lay claim to vast new tracts of potentially oil and gas-rich territories in the seas off the Falklands.

• Sunday, September 23rd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchners face busy New York agenda

  President Néstor Kirchner and his wife (and would-be successor) Cristina Fernández arrive in New York today to attend the United Nations General Assembly.