29 people dead, hundreds wounded.

Jewish organisations leaders welcomed the new Pope Francis I who was elected at the Vatican on Wednesday by the 115 Catholic cardinals following Pope Benedict's resignation last month.

Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner launched a blistering attack on the director of a Buenos Aires Jewish community, after AMIA President Guillermo Borger questioned the decision by her government to launch a “truth commission” into the unsolved 1994  bomb attack against the Jewish center in conjunction with suspected perpetrators Iran.

Agreement with Tehran, which limits questioning to 5 suspects, could let high-ranking Iranian officials off the hook.

Israel has summoned the Argentinian ambassador in protest over an agreement between Iran and Argentina to jointly investigate the terror bombing in 1994 of the AMIA Jewish community center and the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Bueons Aires.”

Jewish groups have expressed concerns over the apparent thawing of relations between Argentina and Iran, after the two countries announced plans for a "truth commission" to examine the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community centre which killed 85 people.

Argentina soon will propose an agenda to Iran on talks to settle lawsuits related to the 1994 bombing of a Jewish aid organization in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, authorities said.

Israel's embassy in Buenos Aires expressed "disappointment" Friday over talks between Argentina and Iran about a deadly attack nearly two decades ago on a Jewish center in the Argentine capital.

Relatives of the victims of Argentina's worst terrorist attack have marked the 18th anniversary of a bomb blast which claimed 85 lives, demanding those responsible are brought to justice.

Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was ordered Friday to stand trial for obstruction of justice in a probe of the 1994 bombing of a building housing Jewish charities that killed 85 people.