Argentina

Lionel Messi has ended his career as a player for the Argentine national team at 39 years old. Messi, who played in six World Cups, won the tournament in Qatar 2022 and led Argentina to the final in 2026 losing to Spain.

Pope Leo XIV will make his first trip to Latin America as pontiff in November, visiting Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru. The Vatican announced the trip on Wednesday. This visit is significant due to Leo's deep ties to Peru, where he spent decades as a missionary and church leader. He served as bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023.

Argentina's World Cup players have sparked a cultural moment for the disputed Falkland Islands. After defeating Britain in the World Cup semifinals, Argentina's players displayed a banner that said, "the Malvinas are Argentine."

Argentine President Javier Milei has signed an emergency decree allowing the government to deny entry to or expel foreigners who incite discrimination or violence against Argentines. This measure Thursday adds new grounds to Argentina's immigration law, allowing authorities to revoke visas and deport those promoting hatred against Argentines. The move follows weeks of international backlash during and after the World Cup.

COMMENTARY Argentina used Messi marketing to make its soccer association perhaps the world's richest today — but in the process it's become an FBI-targeted poster child for what's wrong with the sport.

It's a World Cup semifinal lineup for the ages. Four previous champions and the four top-ranking teams in the world. Five of the six top scorers, one GOAT and one of the bitterest rivalries in soccer.

The sending off of Switzerland's Breel Embolo in Saturday's quarterfinal game against Argentina was the latest call that may have left fans scratching their heads, not least because of the confusing name of the newly implemented "mistaken identity" law that swung the match.

Citing sources close to the investigation, the Argentine daily newspaper, La Nación, and the Miami Herald each reported that U.S. federal investigators are examining the Argentine Football Association's Miami branch's transfers of more than $300 million through U.S. banks — and an accounting of how the money was spent.

The city of Ushuaia in Argentina, which bills itself as the "end of the world," has found itself at the center of a global media storm involving a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise that departed from its port. Tourism operators and officials are scrambling to stem fallout from the nautical nightmare that they fear could cause foreigners to reconsider their Antarctic cruise plans.

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to figure out if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise. Argentina is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rat-borne disease in Latin America.

Argentine President Javier Milei expelled the press corps from the Casa Rosada, marking a significant escalation in his administration's attacks on traditional news outlets that mirror the tactics of his ideological ally, U.S. President Donald Trump. Milei's spokesperson claims the move was a response to unauthorized footage aired by a local TV channel.

Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei opened Congress with a fiery 90-minute speech highlighting his government's achievements and praising his relationship with American President Donald Trump.