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Saturday, August 29th 2026 - 15:03 UTC
Chevening scholarships: eight Argentine professionals after Master’s degrees in UK

Eight Argentine professionals will spend a year in the UK pursuing master’s degrees through the fully funded Chevening scholarship program.
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Friday, August 28th 2026 - 19:35 UTC
The US waives beef tariffs for Brazil and Paraguay, but not for Argentina and Uruguay

US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 26 temporarily waiving tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings, a measure that excludes countries already holding their own quotas in the US market, among them Argentina and Uruguay. The main beneficiaries will be Brazil and Paraguay.
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Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 08:09 UTC
Argentine lawmakers travel to Brasília to repair relations with Brazil

A delegation of Argentine deputies and senators from opposition parties will travel to Brasília next Wednesday with the aim of repairing bilateral relations, strained since President Javier Milei referred to his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in offensive terms. The group is due to meet the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, the foreign ministry and representatives of the presidency.
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Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 21:39 UTC
Argentine trips abroad fall 21.2% as Brazil and Uruguay lead arrivals

The number of Argentine residents leaving the country in July fell 21.2% year on year, to 1.22 million people, according to the international tourism statistics report released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. In the opposite direction, 830,200 foreign visitors entered the country, 17.9% more than a year earlier.
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Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC
Argentina acknowledges the Magellan treaties and seeks to defuse friction with Chile

Argentina's foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday reaffirming that its position on the Strait of Magellan is the one established by the 1881 Boundary Treaty and the 1984 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, a day after Chile announced it would send a note of protest over remarks by the head of the Argentine Air Force General Staff.
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Tuesday, August 25th 2026 - 06:04 UTC
Chile protests to Argentina over a military chief's remarks on the Strait of Magellan

Chile's foreign ministry announced on Monday it will send a note of protest to the Argentine government over remarks by the head of the Argentine Air Force General Staff, Brigadier General Gustavo Javier Valverde, in which he mentioned the Strait of Magellan while referring to sovereignty matters.
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Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:44 UTC
Man detained in Buenos Aires after driving a stolen bus, saying it was his dream

A man was detained on Sunday in the western part of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area after driving a city bus for several kilometres, having taken it without authorisation from a depot, following the line's regular route and picking up passengers at stops.
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Monday, August 24th 2026 - 21:26 UTC
Milei links Lula to the case of the Argentine former adviser detained in Bolivia

Argentine President Javier Milei has attributed the criminal case against his former adviser Fernando Cerimedo, detained in Bolivia over an attempted femicide, to a regional plot in which he included Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former Bolivian president Evo Morales and Argentine lawmaker Marcela Pagano. He offered no evidence to support the claim.
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Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:44 UTC
Unemployment displaces inflation as Argentines' main concern

Unemployment has become the leading problem Argentines want the government to solve, well ahead of inflation, according to the economic expectations report by the polling firm Opina Argentina released over the weekend. Thirty-six percent of respondents placed it first, followed by corruption on 32%, while inflation fell to 11% and insecurity to 9%.
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Monday, August 24th 2026 - 06:53 UTC
Two newly detained men testify in the case over the shooting of the Bolivian lawyer

Two men held as part of the investigation into the shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller gave statements to prosecutors in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Sunday. One is accused of supplying the weapon used in the ambush; the other, a Colombian national identified as a possible gunman, turned himself in after learning he was being sought.
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