All 211 FIFA Member Associations convened virtually at an Extraordinary FIFA Congress where Morocco, Portugal and Spain were appointed as the hosts of the FIFA World Cup 2030™, with three centenary celebration matches to be held in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (one in each country), while Saudi Arabia was selected to stage the FIFA World […]
Buenos Aires: Firefighters in Argentina were battling an “out of control” wildfire in a national park in Patagonia on Saturday, struggling to keep it from reaching two nearby towns. The fire in Los Alerces National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – has already charred about 600 hectares (1500 acres). The affected national park, […]
Zurich: Argentina has ascended to second place in the FIFA rankings, trailing only quarter-finalists Brazil, FIFA, the global governing body announced. Lionel Messi’s side, who lifted the trophy in Qatar, move up one place, as do runners-up France, who are now third, with Belgium dropping to fourth. The FIFA World Cup final was decided on […]
Abu Dhabi: Tickets for Argentina’s match against the UAE in Abu Dhabi on November 16 sold out in less than 24 hours, but football fans still have the chance to catch Lionel Messi and his compañeros in the capital courtesy of an open training session three days earlier. Tickets for the open training at Al […]
Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier collapsed and it was caught on camera. Masses of ice broke off, then re-emerged from underneath the water in a process known as calving. The collapse was witnessed by tourists on a visit to the country’s Patagonia region. Source: Agencies
DUBAI: Countries from across the world came together to celebrate the ‘New 7 Wonders of Nature’ at the open-air Jubilee Stage at Expo 2020 Dubai. These seven natural wonders consist of the Amazon Rainforest and River in South America; Ha Long Bay in Vietnam; Jeju Island in South Korea; Iguazu Falls in Argentina and Brazil; Komodo […]
DUBAI: With the message that Argentina has reopened its doors to the world and is ready to welcome everyone, the Argentina Tourism Bureau was at Expo 2020 to highlight why it is an appealing destination for tourists. With the largest waterfall system in the world, the highest peak in the Americas and some of the […]
Close encounters in the middle of the ocean aren’t new, but it is quite the visual. One such recent incident found a paddleboarder side by side a giant southern right whale in Argentina’s Golfo Nuevo. The encounter was caught on camera at Puerto Madryn when the curious whale lightly nudged the woman on the paddleboard […]
We have all seen different people playing different instruments together in a band or an orchestra. But, have you seen one person play multiple instruments at the same time in perfect coordination? In a recent viral video, an Argentinian man named Santiago Moreno is seen doing exactly that. He has come to be known as […]
A solar eclipse that lasted around two minutes plunged southern Chile and Argentina into darkness on Monday. Heavy rain had threatened to prevent thousands of star gazers in Chile from seeing the eclipse but at the last moment the clouds parted just enough for the phenomenon to be partially visible. In Argentine Patagonia, several families […]
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez buoyed the pro-choice movement on Tuesday by confirming he would deliver on his campaign promise to legalise abortion. Fernandez told Radio Metro that his government was working on the final touches to a bill that would soon be sent to Congress. “We’re finishing work,” said Fernandez in a week in which […]
