Stories for 2023

Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 09:42 UTC
Paraguayan Agriculture Minister has doubts about climate change

Paraguay's Agriculture Minister Carlos Giménez said Wednesday that he was seriously doubting there was such a thing as climate change. “There have always been droughts and floods in Paraguay,” he pointed out in a broadcast interview in Asunción.
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Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 09:12 UTC
Chile's new ambassador to Buenos Aires chosen

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday chose José Antonio Viera-Gallo to fill the vacancy as Ambassador to Argentina, which would mean the appointee's return to a position he held between 2015 and 2018, Undersecretary of the Interior Manuel Monsalve announced.
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Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 08:31 UTC
Uruguay, China deepen bilateral ties

President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay and Xi Jinping of China Wednesday announced after meeting in Beijing that new steps toward a bilateral free trade deal had been agreed upon.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 23:43 UTC
Falklands' Johnny Rook cognitive abilities break all records

A team of comparative cognition researchers at the Messerli Research Institute from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, working with a colleague from Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, in Argentina, has found that a type of falcon can perform as well as Goffin's cockatoos (parrots) in solving puzzles to gain a food reward, a remarkable sign of avian intelligence.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 23:27 UTC
Concern over the ozone layer hole evolution in austral mid spring, NZ report

The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has been getting deeper in austral mid-spring over the last two decades, according to New Zealand researchers working with scientists from Otago University and published in a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 10:25 UTC
Lula does not need to be friends with presidents of other countries

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday that he does not need to be friends with the heads of state of other countries, despite which it was possible to reach an agreement, Agencia Brasil reported.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 10:10 UTC
Argentina:“Blue” dollar bounces back nearing historic highs

The “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar rose AR$ 125 Tuesday on the first working day after Sunday's presidential runoff and once again pierced the psychological AR$ 1,000 barrier upwards, closing at AR$ 1.025 / 1.075 (buy/sell), thus getting closer to its historical AR$ 1,100 high for a gap of 202% with the official quotation.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:44 UTC
Vice-Presidential transition starting Wednesday in Argentina

Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) is to welcome her elected successor Victoria Villarruel Tuesday afternoon to set the transition at the head of the Senate in motion. Villarruel has been highly critical of the former head of state throughout the 2023 campaign.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:32 UTC
Milei and Alberto Fernández meet for two and a half hours

Argentine President Alberto Fernández finally met Tuesday with his elected successor the Libertarian Javier Milei to officially kick off the transition toward the Dec. 10 inauguration. “The meeting took place at the Olivos presidential residence to initiate the institutional transition process between the teams appointed by both in the different areas of government,” Presidential Spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti wrote on social media.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 09:15 UTC
Falklands lawmaker reaffirms self determination and questions Argentina's claim

Falkland Islands elected member of the Legislative Assembly, Mark Pollard speaking with the UK media insisted on the Islands' people right to self determination and even questioned that the Falklands ever belonged to Argentina.
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