MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 19th 2026
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Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:50 UTC
A critical report says Argentina's investment regime concentrated capital in mining and oil
Argentina's Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI), created in 2024, “consolidated a strongly extractive profile and did not stimulate new sectors,” according to a report released on Wednesday by the RIGI Observatory, a coalition of civil society organisations and academic centres that examines the scheme from a critical standpoint.
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Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:47 UTC
A personalized mRNA therapy passes a phase 3 melanoma trial for the first time
Pharmaceutical companies Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Moderna announced on Wednesday that their individualized neoantigen therapy, intismeran autogene, met its endpoints in a phase 3 trial in melanoma patients. It is the first positive result at that stage for an mRNA-based cancer treatment.
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Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 10:01 UTC
Falklands consolidates the future of its economy in the fishing and hydrocarbons industries
The Falklands Planning and Building Committee has approved two projects tied to the sectors that underpin the Islands' economy: fishing and hydrocarbons.
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Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC
An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting
Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.
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Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 08:45 UTC
Australia launches program to vaccinate colonies of little penguins against avian influenza
According to ABC News Australia wildlife conservation agencies in the state of Victoria have launched a program to vaccinate little penguins against the H5 strain of avian influenza. Over the next few weeks, experts plan to capture and vaccinate more than 5,000 birds in colonies on Philip Island and St. Kilda.
