Tag: Buenos Aires

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  China/US technical trade talks end with “understanding of each others' concern”

  

  Trade talks between China and the United States this week were extensive, and helped establish a foundation for the resolution of each others' concerns, China's commerce ministry said on Thursday, but gave no details on the issues at stake.

• Friday, December 28th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  Buenos Aires public transport rates up 40% in three months, beginning January

  

  The Argentine government announced on Thursday new increases in public transport rates, some 40% on average that will apply from next January to travel by bus, train and metro.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 19:41 UTC

  Court says CFK must be tried for corruption and jailed preemptively

  

  An Argentine appeals court Thursday upheld the September decision by judge Claudio Bonadio whereby Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) must stand trial and be preemptively imprisoned throughout the proceedings for having allegedly received millionaire bribes from businessmen in the Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015).

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Falklands-Buenos Aires link: Argentina awards license and route to low-cost airline

  

  The Argentine government awarded low-cost airline Flybondi a 15-year license to exploit 284 domestic and international routes, including one that potentially can link Buenos Aires directly with the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 09:29 UTC

  British ambassador praises Buenos Aires urban transport on an emergency day

  

  British ambassador in Argentina Mark Kent attended a conference and lunch in downtown Buenos Aires, and forced by rain, no embassy vehicle or taxi, simply took a local bus back to the office.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Strong message from Merkel to Macri: How the world sees and expects Argentina to perform

  

  She was the last to arrive, but together with French president Emmanuel Macron one of the most popular leaders during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires. Her official aircraft had to turn back because of communications problems so German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a commercial flight from Madrid directly to Buenos Aires, a day late for the inauguration but not for the other activities including a couple of outings in the Argentine capital.

• Sunday, December 2nd 2018 - 01:40 UTC

  UN Remarks to G20 session on Climate and Sustainable Development

  

  In order to accomplish the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, United Nations consider the big trouble in relation to climate change the world is suffering. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres remarks to G20 session on Climate and Sustainable Development as an advice on the “greatest threat to human security and sustainable development and that climate change is still running faster than we are”.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 21:40 UTC

  Anti-globalist protests and controversy over the use of lethal weapons: Argentine Minister of Security came out to clarify in the framework of the G20

  

  After the controversy generated by a resolution in which the Ministry of Security of Argentina allows the police to use lethal weapons against a person who flees in the framework of the summit of the Group of 20 in Buenos Aires, the minister Patricia Bullrich went to clarify that this disposition “has nothing to do with the mobilization” against the G20 crowded by social organizations this Friday.

• Friday, November 30th 2018 - 17:22 UTC

  Small earthquake hits Buenos Aires during G-20 Summit

  

  Argentina's National Institute of Seismic Prevention (INPRES) recorded an earthquake rated at 3.8 on the Richter scale at 10.27 am Friday in the city of Buenos Aires and its surroundings, it was reported.

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  World leaders fly to Buenos Aires for G20, but little consensus for a final declaration

  

  United States President Donald Trump jets into Argentina on Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine. The weekend summit is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the potential harm faced by the world economy from Trump's trade wars.