Argentina

Spain dethroned Argentina to claim the World Cup with a 1-0 victory over the defending champions after extra time on July 19. A Ferran Torres strike in the 106th minute helped Spain edge past 10-man Argentina for their first World Cup…

Following their 2-1 World Cup semifinal victory over England, Argentine players held up a banner claiming the Falkland Islands belong to Argentina. Political messages are banned under FIFA rules. After the referee blew his whistle for…

Lionel Messi opened his 2026 World Cup with a hat-trick against Algeria in the opening game of Group J, tying him for first on the all-time men's scoring list with 16 career goals in soccer's biggest tournament. Messi’s hat-trick helped…

A new trial over the death of Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona will begin on Tuesday, with seven members of his medical team charged with negligent homicide nearly a year after a previous case collapsed in a mistrial. An enduring…

Argentina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner over irregularities in public works contracts during her time in office. The country’s highest court rejected an…

Argentina won its second straight Copa America championship, overcoming Lionel Messi’s second-half leg injury to beat Colombia 1-0 Sunday night on Lautaro Martínez’s 112th-minute goal. Messi appeared to sustain a non-contact injury while…

Argentina has asked Interpol to arrest Iran’s interior minister over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The Iranian minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is part of a…

Populist Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential election Sunday, swinging the country to the right following a fiercely polarized campaign in which he promised a dramatic shake-up to the state to deal with soaring inflation and rising…

Sri Lanka and Argentina remain very vulnerable amid a worsening in global financial conditions while China has suffered a sharp deterioration in financial resilience since pre-COVID times, a think-tank study found on Wednesday. The…

Argentina and Fiji completed the quarterfinal lineup at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday. Argentina went through the front door, Fiji came through the back. Argentina ended Japan’s involvement in the tournament with a 39-27 victory in…