05/04/2013 | Argentina

Pope Francis donates u$s 50,000 for La Plata's victims

Pope Francis has made a u$s 50,000 emergency fund available for the La Plata archdiocese to assist the victims of the storm that battered the capital city of Buenos Aires province earlier this week.

06/04/2013 | Argentina

CFK signs relief measures for storm victims

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced a series of emergency measures for the victims of the tragic storm that hit La Plata and the city of Buenos Aires this week.

09/04/2013 | Argentina

City Legislature approves emergency aid for storm victims

City lawmakers approved a DNU emergency decree signed by Mayor Mauricio Macri in a special Legislature session that creates the Special Subsidies Regime for Victims whose property was damaged by a strong storm last week.

13/02/2013 | Argentina

Timerman: 'all suspects will be questioned' but admits some could refuse to do so

As Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman defended the agreement between Argentina and Iran, the Senate analyzed whether to pass or not an accord that looks to investigate the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in 1994.

21/02/2013 | Argentina

CFK on Once train crash: 'Judiciary will determine responsibilities'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today remembered the victims of the Once train crash today, as the first year anniversary of the incident which left 51 people dead ando ver 700 injured takes place on Friday

03/04/2013 | Argentina

Macri urges national, BA province gov'ts to get hands on hydraulic works

BA City Mayor Mauricio Macri gave a second press conference within the past 24 hours following the freak rainstorm that swept dozens of neighborhoods, and urged both national and BA provincial administrations to support the hydraulic public works on the Medrano underground river.

22/08/2012 | Argentina

Victims remembered six months on from Once tragedy

Families and friends of those who died and were injured in the fatal train crash at Once central station, gathered this morning at the station to remember the victims, six months on from the incident.

22/10/2012 | Argentina

Once crash victims commemorated 8 months on

Family members and friends of the Once train crash victims gathered at the central train station in Buenos Aires this morning in order to commemorate their loved ones, eight months after the tragedy that killed 51 people and left more than 700 injured.

22/01/2013 | Argentina

Relatives of Once tragedy victims criticize government’s 'silence'

Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Once tragedy remembered their loves on the 11th month anniversary of the railroad accident that left 51 people left and hundreds of passengers injured. They also said the National Government’s “silence” is shameful.

24/05/2012 | Argentina

Fire breaks out in La Boca, no fatalities reported

A large fire broke out in a tenement in La Boca, where at least five fire trucks were intensely trying to put it out. No fatalities were reported.

07/07/2012 | Argentina

Wives of Cañuelas murder victims speak out

Beatriz Rincón and Fernanda Inacio, both widowed after their husbands, Marcelo and Leonardo Massa, were brutally murdered in Cañuelas last weekend, spoke out today and asked for those responsible for the crime “rot in prison and never be let out.”

13/07/2012 | Argentina

Cromañón: owner of nightclub sentenced to 4 1/2 years

A Buenos Aires City criminal court gave the verdict today of the trial which investigated the fire at República Cromañon nightclub, in the neighbourhood of Balvanera, which killed 194 people in December 30, 2004.

10/03/2012 | Argentina

Cromañón street reopens on Tuesday to buses, taxis, emergency vehicles

The City Government announced today that Bartolomé Mitre street, closed since the tragic fire occurred inside República Cromañón nightclub in 2004, will be reopened to traffic, however only to taxis, buses and emergency vehicles.

23/03/2012 | Argentina

'Let us not get used to travelling as if we were cattle,' Cardinal Bergoglio

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio said that the Once train crash was caused by officials who did not comply with their responsibilities as he held a special mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in remembrance of the train crash victims.

21/04/2012 | Argentina

Once train crash relatives to remember victims, two months on

On the two-month anniversary of the Once train crash, which left 51 dead and over 700 injured, relatives and friends of the victims of the incident held various memorial ceremonies across the city of Buenos Aires. Part of the commemorative events included the handing out of black wrist bands to the public.

02/11/2011 | Argentina

'It's the worst tragedy in the history of San Luis,' says Rodriguez Saá

Governor of San Luis province, Alberto Rodríguez Saá, spoke during a radio interview to comment on the train accident which took place today in the area of Las Zanjitas, a town located fifty-five kilometers south of the province capital. He informed that there would be two days of mourning due to the incident, in which so far eight were reported dead.

23/02/2012 | Argentina

Macri calls for 'deep analysis to determine why these incidents occur'

Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri congratulated the SAME emergency medical assistance service, Metropolitan Police and Civil Defence for their effective work in the Once train crash. “What we really need is a deep analysis to understand why these things happen,” he said.

28/02/2012 | Argentina

Once train crash victims' families lead rally at Obelisk

Family members and relatives of the 51 Once train crash victims headed a demonstration in front of the Obelisk, in the crossroads of 9 de Julio and Corrientes Avenues. They claimed for justice and that TBA's contract is terminated "because the service never improves."

21/05/2011 | Argentina

Remains of the plane crash victims analysed at Buenos Aires morgue

The remains of the 22 bodies of the people that died in the Sol airline plane crash on Wednesday arrived at the Buenos Aires morgue and forensic experts began to work on them. Meanwhile, the victims’s relatives were drawn blood to carry out DNA tests to begin the identification process.

31/05/2011 | Argentina

Two dead in Borda Hospital fire

Two people died this morning after a fire broke out inside the psychiatric hospital José T. Borda, in Barracas neighbourhood, firefighters reported. The victims were patients of the hospital's Penitentiary Unit.

24/06/2011 | Argentina

Car crash in Mendoza leaves four dead, two injured

A car crash in the Villa Nueva district of Guaymallén killed three women and a young man this morning, leaving the two other passengers severely injured. The driver was said to have lost control of the vehicle causing the car to crash into a tree, police officials informed. The victims were all aged between 20 and 25 years old.

18/02/2011 | Argentina

Seven train accident victims remain in hospital

Seven of the train accident victims are still hospitalised in various provincial facilities, wounded from the crash incident, when two trained collided in San Miguel two days ago.

24/03/2011 | Argentina

Multiple traffic accidents overnight cause 6 deaths

Multiple traffic accidents caused six deaths overnight into this morning, as a couple and their baby were killed along motorway 7 at kilometre 320 after crashing into a coach. Another accident occurred last night along motorway 34 in Santa Fé leaving 3 dead and one seriously injured.

25/03/2011 | Argentina

Multiple traffic accidents, death toll rises to 15

At least fifteen people have died in recent hours as a consequence of traffic accidents and crashes along different motorways across the country. Most have occurred in the Buenos Aires province, largely due to the huge influx of traffic headed toward tourist towns.

12/01/2013 | World

Pakistani Shi'ite keep second night of vigil over 96 bomb victims

Pakistani government officials met with Shi'ite leaders late on Saturday as thousands of protesters prepared for a second night in the cold rain, alongside the bodies of 96 people killed in one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country's history

26/04/2013 | World

Fire kills dozens in Russian psychiatric hospital

Thirty-eight people were killed, most of them in their beds, in a fire that raged through a psychiatric hospital near Moscow, raising questions about the care of mentally ill patients in Russia.

11/05/2013 | World

Car bombs kill 43 in Turkey near the border with Syria

Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement.

08/09/2012 | World

Police start searching house of Britons shot dead in French Alps

French and British police began searching the house today of a British man shot dead in the French Alps with his wife and another woman and a state prosecutor said the man's brother would be officially questioned as part of the investigations.

16/12/2012 | World

Obama consoles Connecticut town hit by school massacre

17/12/2012 | World

Funerals begin for Connecticut victims as schools confront tragedy

The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called "unconscionable evil," holds the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week.

13/07/2012 | World

Costa Concordia victims remembered, 6 months on

Residents of this Tuscan island and relatives of victims of the Costa Concordia disaster prayed and ships' horns sounded on Friday to mark the six months since the cruise liner ran aground, killing 32 people.

27/07/2012 | World

Colorado cinema massacre suspect was under psychiatrist's care

The man accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area cinema last week was under the care of a psychiatrist who has specialized in schizophrenia, newly filed court papers revealed.

09/08/2012 | World

Accused Colorado shooter has 'mental illness,' defence attorney says

Accused Colorado shooter James Holmes, charged with murder over a shooting rampage last month at a movie theater in a Denver suburb, has a "mental illness" and tried to get help before the shootings, his defence attorney said in court.

11/06/2011 | World

Japan anti-nuclear protesters rally 3 months after quake

Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters marched in Japan today, on the three-month anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, pressing the government to cut the country's reliance on atomic power.

13/08/2011 | World

Berlin pays tribute to Berlin Wall victims

At a sombre ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction, Mayor Klaus Wowereit, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff paid tribute to the 136 people killed trying to get over the Wall to West Berlin.

02/02/2012 | World

France opens inquiry into Costa Concordia shipwreck

The Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary inquiry today into the causes of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster in Italy last month, following a decision to group together legal complaints by relatives of French victims.

13/01/2011 | World

Obama leads mourning of Arizona shooting victims

President Barack Obama mourned victims of an Arizona shooting spree on Wednesday and urged Americans not to let a political debate over the tragedy be used as "one more occasion to turn on one another."

21/01/2011 | World

Tunisia to pay abuse victims, hunt Ben Ali clan

Tunisia will pay compensation to the families of victims of human rights abuse under its ousted authoritarian leader and will send envoys to other Arab states to pursue him, its prime minister said.

14/05/2011 | World

Japan approves Tepco nuclear claims plan

Japan announced a plan to help Tokyo Electric Power compensate victims of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled nuclear plant without going broke while it struggles to resolve the nuclear crisis.

26/01/2012 | Latin America

Rousseff expresses her condolences to Río tragedy’s victims

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff expressed her concern over the tragic collapse of three buildings in Río de Janeiro that left five dead and at least sixteen missing. She sent her condolences to the victims and hopes that those missing appear alive.

07/05/2013 | Latin America

Mexico: Gas tanker truck explodes, kills 20

A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway north of Mexico City early, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 30 others as a fireball tore through cars and homes.

24/07/2012 | Entertainment

Christian Bale visits shooting victims

Christian Bale, the actor behind the Batman mask in "The Dark Knight Rises," visited victims of the Colorado shooting at a hospital, the Denver Post newspaper reported, citing an official for the Warner Bros film studio.