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Argentina

  • Saturday, June 1st 2013 - 02:29 UTC

    Gibraltar claims C24 is ‘failing miserably’ in its task of decolonising territories

    Veteran minister Bossano involved for almost half a century in the decolonization campaign of Gibraltar

    Gibraltar veteran Minister Joe Bossano launched a scathing attack on to the record of the UN Committee of Decolonization or C24 claiming it is consistently falling to do the work it is tasked with: decolonising the territories on its list.

  • Friday, May 31st 2013 - 07:04 UTC

    Falklands fines Korea and Taiwan companies for straddling in Argentine waters

    Director of Natural Resources John Barton, confident there won’t be repetition of offenders

    Falkland Islands Government Director of Natural Resources John Barton said that he is confident that there won’t be any repetition in the future of recent offences by companies licensed to fish in Falklands waters.

  • Friday, May 31st 2013 - 06:41 UTC

    Iran/Argentina memorandum involved in a further controversy

    Timerman visited Interpol headquarters and met with Secretary General Richard K Noble in Lyon

    Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman met on Thursday with Interpol top officials and said he received ‘very strong support’ for the memorandum signed with Iran, which includes the questioning of those allegedly involved in the 1994 attack on the Jewish organization AMIA in Buenos Aires that killed 85 and left dozens injured.

  • Friday, May 31st 2013 - 02:14 UTC

    Argentine cabinet surprise shuffle: Puricelli to Security and Rossi to Defence

    Puricelli  (C) leaves Defence and is replaced by Rossi who moves from the Lower House and Nilda Garre becomes Ambassador

    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez shuffled her cabinet appointing Defence minister Arturo Puricelli at the Security ministry and Agustin Rossi until now head of the government’s block in the Lower House, in Defence. Removed Nilda Garré is to be appointed as the new ambassador before the Organization of American States, OAS.

  • Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 23:00 UTC

    Argentina: The volcano has the last word

    Gov. Sapag: “the volcano will have the last word”

    With the imminent eruption of Copahue volcano, the governor of Neuquén, Jorge Sapag, said that, “the volcano will have the last word”, and has asked to wait 72 hours, as the specialists recommended, not to give rise to false expectations amongst the evacuees.

  • Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:37 UTC

    Copahue volcano eruption imminent

    Sheep walk with the Copahue volcano spewing ashes in the background in Neuquen province ^(Photo AFP)

    After the Copahue volcano on the Neuquén provincial Andean border with Chile began spewing smoke due to an increase in seismic activity, a red alert was issued by Chilean authorities ordering the full evacuation of an estimated 3,000 people.

  • Wednesday, May 29th 2013 - 20:21 UTC

    Streetview Buenos Aires

    Washout in Buenos Aires

    By Albert Canil (*) - As Wrong As Rain - Yesterday saw Argentines fearful of a sequel to the tragic flood that took more than 54 lives in early April. For once weathermen would have chosen to be wrong but night overtook day and the heavens opened: in some neighbourhoods the rain gauges mercilessly read more than 52 mm of rainfall between 11:30 and 2 pm.

  • Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 21:52 UTC

    EU imposes duties on Argentine biodiesel

    Argentina’s Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman warned in an official statement

    The European Union is imposing punitive duties on imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia, charging them with selling the product into the bloc at unfairly low prices, setting provisional tariffs ranging from 6.8 to 10.6 % for imports from Argentina and between zero and 9.6 % for those from Indonesia.

  • Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 07:06 UTC

    Cascade of legal challenges to Cristina Fernandez Council of Magistrates reform

    “We pretend to be elected by our peers”, said Luis Maria Cabral, president of the Argentine Magistrates association.

    At least sixteen different organizations from magistrates to political parties filed on Monday legal challenges after Argentine president Cristina Fernandez signed the Council of Magistrates reform into law and called for elections of council members.

  • Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

    Lawmakers accuse Cristina Fernandez before a federal court of falsifying stats

    The president and her faithful Moreno who makes sure inflation is ‘tamed’ (Pic file)

    Several Argentine lawmakers from opposition parties accused President Cristina Fernandez and Domestic Trade minister Guillermo Moreno of allegedly ‘falsifying” the figures published by the government’s official stats office Indec.