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Argentine President Javier Milei waves to supporters after voting during legislative midterm elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26, 2025. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)
October 26, 2025, 10:10 pm
Argentina votes in midterm elections set to test Milei’s mandate, US support
Argentine president, a staunch Israel supporter who has floated converting to Judaism, faces challenge in vote focused on kitchen table concerns
By Isabel Debre
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez greets supporters as she leaves her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
December 7, 2022, 12:27 am
Argentinian VP Cristina Fernández sentenced to 6 years in prison for fraud
Former president found guilty for scheme that embezzled $1b through public works projects while she led country, vows to appeal
By Almudena Calatrava
Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
October 19, 2022, 5:50 am
Argentina asks Qatar to arrest Iran official for alleged role in 1994 AMIA bombing
Judge seeks former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei’s arrest for ‘proven participation’ in planning attack on Jewish center that killed 85 and wounded hundreds
By ToI Staff
A screengrab from video purportedly showing Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel pointing a gun at Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Thursday, September 1, 2022. (Screengrab)
September 16, 2022, 12:16 pm
Man with Nazi tattoo, girlfriend charged for attempted assassination of Argentine VP
Judge says suspects focused on crowds that gather nightly outside Cristina Kirchner’s house ‘to choose the right time for the attack,’ though motive yet to be established
By AFP
A screengrab from video purportedly showing Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel pointing a gun at Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Thursday, September 1, 2022. (Screengrab)
September 6, 2022, 11:04 am
Police detain partner of suspect in attempt to assassinate Argentine VP
Authorities working to determine if woman played a role, after Nazi-tattooed man tried to shoot Fernández
By AP and ToI Staff
A screengrab from video purportedly showing Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel pointing a gun at Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner on Thursday, September 1, 2022. (Screengrab)
September 3, 2022, 4:25 am
Man who attempted to assassinate Argentine vice president has Nazi tattoo
Identified as Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel, suspect sports a ‘black sun’ symbol that has been used by white supremacist mass shooters
By ToI Staff and AFP
This still image taken from a video provided by Television Publica Argentina shows a man pointing a gun at Argentina´s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during an event in front of her home in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (Television Publica Argentina via AP)
September 2, 2022, 7:51 am
Man holds gun to head of Argentine VP in apparent failed assassination attempt
Incident comes at culmination of politically powerful Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s corruption case; president calls it ‘most serious incident since we recovered democracy’
By Debora Rey and Almudena Calatrava
The aftermath of the bombing at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 1994. (AFP)
October 8, 2021, 10:39 am
Argentina court drops Jewish center bombing cover-up claim against ex-president
Court dismisses late prosecutor Nisman’s claim against now VP Fernández de Kirchner, says Argentina-Iran deal for probe into 1994 AMIA terror attack ‘did not constitute a crime’
By Agencies
Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner presides over a Senate session in Buenos Aires, December 29, 2020. (Mariano Gabriel Sanchez/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)
July 20, 2021, 10:06 am
On anniversary of 1994 AMIA bombing, Argentina’s VP decries trial against her
While Jewish community holds commemoration, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner says accusations that she covered up Iran’s role in attack are a ‘monumental scandal’
By JTA
File photos of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (left), Buenos Aires, September 19, 2012, and of Argentina's deceased public prosecutor Alberto Nisman (right), Buenos Aires, May 20, 2009 (Juan Mabromata/AFP)
June 12, 2020, 8:26 pm
Ex-Mossad man reveals role in events that led to death of AMIA prosecutor Nisman
TV says it was Mossad that tied Iran to Buenos Aires Jewish HQ terror attack; ex-agent says he gave Nisman material allegedly incriminating Kirchner in cover-up, with fatal result
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife, Sara, 2nd from right, host Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, left, and his partner Fabiola Yanez, second from left, in Jerusalem, January 24, 2020. (Haim Zach/GPO)
January 25, 2020, 2:37 am
Netanyahu congratulates Argentine PM for investigation of AMIA bombing
PM lauds Alberto Fernandez’s ‘persistence in discovering the truth’ of deadly terror attack; his deputy, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is accused of a cover up in the case
By ToI Staff
People hold signs during the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the death of the special prosecutor in the AMIA bombing case, Alberto Nisman, on January 18, 2020, in Buenos Aires. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP)
January 19, 2020, 9:28 am
Argentines rally to remember prosecutor killed while probing AMIA attack
Some 3,000 attend demonstration in Buenos Aires; Nisman led the investigation into presidential cover-up of 1994 bombing of Jewish community center that left 85 dead, 300 wounded
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on May 20, 2009 Argentina's Public Prosecutor Alberto Nisman gives a press conference in Buenos Aires. January 18 marks the fifth anniversary of the mysterious death of Nisman,who had accused Iran of the attack on the Jewish mutual AMIA in 1994 and had denounced ex-president Cristina Kirchner in the case (JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)
January 17, 2020, 1:21 pm
Netflix docuseries revives debate over Argentine prosecutor’s death
‘The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy’ examines still unsolved death of Alberto Nisman after he accused then-president Kirchner of cover-up in 1994 bombing of Jewish center
By Liliana Samuel
This 1995 file photo shows Moshen Rabbani, former cultural attache in the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/La Nacion, File)
January 10, 2020, 11:42 pm
Iranian accused in AMIA attack floats conspiracy theories on prosecutor’s murder
Moshen Rabbani again denies orchestrating 1994 Jewish center bombing in Argentina that left 85 dead, puts forward different claims concerning Alberto Nisman’s death
By Almudena Calatrava
Presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez addresses supporters at the "Frente de Todos" party headquarters after primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. The "Frente de Todos" presidential ticket with former President Cristina Fernández emerged as the strongest vote-getter in Argentina’s primary elections Sunday, indicating conservative President Mauricio Macri will face an uphill battle going into general elections in October. (AP Photo/Sebastian Pani)
January 3, 2020, 1:12 am
Argentine president says ‘no proof’ AMIA prosecutor Nisman was murdered
Alberto Hernandez, who is allied with Cristina Kirchner, also says he doubts investigator probing bombing of Jewish center killed himself after accusing former leader of cover up
By AFP
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