Argentina

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Jewish community remembers 18th anniversary of bombing in Buenos Aires

  

  Wednesday marks the 18th anniversary of the fatal bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eighty-five people were killed by the blast with hundreds wounded.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 07:52 UTC

  Buenos Aires sends forces to Santa Cruz province to help with law and order

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez political turf, the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz has formally requested the deployment of federal forces to help keep law and order because of a 16-day strike by the provincial police.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 07:41 UTC

  Spain, Argentina and Brazil the strongest football tournaments in the world

  

  Argentina's First Division is second strongest tournament in the world after Spain, according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) July release.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Argentine pro-government unions don’t trust Cristina’s stats and official inflation

  

  Despite having managed to split organized labour and declared war on its most powerful exponent the teamsters boss Hugo Moyano, the government of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez still has to deal with its unconvincing stats office and rampant inflation.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 19:21 UTC

  YPF contracting “outstanding professionals” to develop technology department

  

  Argentina’s nationalized oil and gas corporation YPF announced the incorporation to its staff of two “outstanding professionals” for its technology department, Bernard Gremillet and Gustavo Bianchi, which at some time belonged to the company but had left for personal reasons.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:55 UTC

  Premier Oil Falklands’ deal has full support from Foreign Office and markets

  

  Britain's Premier Oil which reached a 1 billion dollars deal to farm in and develop Rockhopper Exploration oil and gas discoveries in the Falkland Islands took advice from the Foreign Office before closing the deal, according to UK media.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:51 UTC

  Argentina warns UK company over involvement in Falklands’ oil production

  

  Argentina will take legal actions against Britain's Premier Oil after the company agreed to invest 1 billion dollars to help develop an oil field off the disputed Falkland Islands, Argentina's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  Moyano says unions will have their own stats office to keep track of inflation

  

  Argentina’s organized labour CGT leader Hugo Moyano began on Monday his new term at the helm of the umbrella union organization and once again targeted the government of President Cristina Fernandez promising to set up his own Indec (stats office) to measure inflation.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:42 UTC

  As the dollar clamp tightens in Argentina, the greenback traded at 6.31 Pesos

  

  The US dollar in Argentina soared on Monday and was trading in the “blue” or parallel market at 6.31 Pesos considerable higher than last Friday. The official rate climbed a modest half cent to 4.53 and 4.575 Pesos.

• Monday, July 16th 2012 - 19:39 UTC

  Argentina celebrates second anniversary of same-sex marriage bill

  

  A law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry in Argentina celebrated its second anniversary over the weekend. Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage after President Christina Fernandez signed the law on July 21, 2010.