News of victims

Twenty years can be something

11-09-2021 09:35 Just as in the preceding generation everybody seemed to remember exactly what they were doing on the day of John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, so 9/11 has remained the object of universal recall in the last 20 years.

by Michael Soltys

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 ATTACKS

The day that changed the United States: Remembering 9/11, 20 years on

11-09-2021 08:54 On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as commercial jetliners commandeered by al-Qaeda hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died that day.

Remembering 9/11, 20 years on

Two decades on, United States comes full circle

11-09-2021 08:45 When al-Qaeda hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, the United States instantly took on a new mission as a furious and fearful nation coalesced around president George W. Bush's "war on terrorism." Twenty years later, the world is transformed.

9/11: 20 YEARS ON

9/11: Victims' families find solace, help in support groups

10-09-2021 21:50 Twenty years later and they still talk regularly: 9/11 survivors and relatives of victims have formed strong friendships through support groups that have proved effective antidotes to their trauma.

COURTS

Santa Cruz: Priest jailed for 17 years for sexual abuse of two minors

10-09-2021 01:01 Priest Nicolás Parma sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of the sexual abuse of two seminarians in Santa Cruz Province.

'Marcha de las piedras'

Protesters ramp up pressure on Fernández following party revelations

17-08-2021 15:26 Hundreds of stones with the names of victims placed outside Casa Rosada and Olivos presidential residence, as protesters rally against the government of President Alberto Fernández.

Coronavirus pandemic

Fernández leads tribute to Covid victims, as death toll nears 100,000

27-06-2021 16:34 Peronist leader leads "ceremony of recollection and reflection" at CCK cultural centre, as Argentina death toll creeps towards 100,000.

Sex abuse

Second Próvolo abuse trial gets underway with two nuns in dock

03-05-2021 17:00 Two nuns and seven other woman stand trial, accused of complicity in the sexual abuse of deaf children at the Próvolo Institute in Mendoza Province.

CHURCH SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Plaintiffs in second Próvolo sex abuse trial demand 'end to delays'

17-04-2021 08:41 Victims and relatives complain defence lawyers for two nuns and several other women are stalling trial into historic child sex abuse at Próvolo Institute in Mendoza Province.