Spain has warned of economic and diplomatic "consequences" if Argentina's President Christina Kirchner (pictured) goes ahead with plans to seize YPF, Argentina's biggest oil company and a subsidiary of Spain’s Repsol.
There's fury in Spain as Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez Kirchner, seeks to rewrite the rules of fair trade. Next, an embarrassing sex scandal for America's secret service - it emerges some agents may have been distracted from the job at hand. Finally, we meet the growing number of Greeks forced to turn their backs on a country wracked by poverty in search of a better life in the Big Apple.
Spanish oil giant Repsol said it would fight for at least 8 billion euros in compensation from Argentina on Tuesday after President Cristina Kirchner announced plans to seize Respsol-controlled YPF, the country’s biggest oil company.
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner announced on Monday that she will ask Congress to expropriate 51% of leading energy company YPF, which is controlled by Spanish giant Repsol, sparking concerns in Spain and the European Union.
Syria's still the focus for the international press: we look at testimony from those trapped in Homs, and ask what the West should do next. We also look at the fresh row over the Falklands - and how that's gone down with the press in Argentina.
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez (pictured) in fact never had cancer, despite being diagnosed with the disease last month, her spokesman said Saturday, just days after she had her thyroid gland removed.
Argentina's popular president Cristina Fernandez was successfully operated on for thyroid cancer on Wednesday. Doctors predicted a complete cure without chemotherapy, since preoperative tests showed the cancer had not spread.
Argentina's centre-left president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has thyroid cancer, her government announced Tuesday. The papillary carcinoma has not metastasized, and an operation to remove her thyroid gland is scheduled for Jan. 4.
Argentina's centre-left president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, swept to a landslide re-election victory on Sunday. Fernandez won another four-year term by more than 40 percentage points over second-place finisher Hermes Binner.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has presided over a period of steady economic growth, but Christian Castillo, a candidate for vice president from the far-left, tells FRANCE 24 many still work under precarious conditions.
