Argentina

• Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:49 UTC

  Argentina elected president of G77 and prepared to act as ‘bridge” with G 20

  

  United nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Argentina for having been chosen to preside as of next year the G77 plus China group, anticipating Buenos Aires could act as a “bridge” with the G 20 group to which it also belongs.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:46 UTC

  Argentina confirms drilling in Malvinas basin for next December

  

  The Argentine press confirmed that following the contracting of a semi-submersible rig from the Swedish company Stensa, a consortium of Argentine based oil companies will begin exploratory drilling in the Malvinas basin next December.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:44 UTC

  Argentine militants demand return of Falklands’ war booty docked in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine extreme militants belonging to a self proclaimed “Patriotic resistance” have taken over the Panama flagged Audax II docked in the port of Buenos Aires, which they allege was originally Argentine but lost to the British during the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 03:57 UTC

  S&P raises Argentina’s long term credit rating based on an improving economy

  

  Standard & Poor's raised on Monday its long-term foreign currency credit rating on Argentina by one notch, to B from B-minus, citing declining debt levels and an improving economy in 2010.

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 03:49 UTC

  Former president Kirchner leaves hospital and recovering satisfactorily

  

  Former Argentine president left Los Arcos hospital Sunday a few minutes after 20:00 hours next to his wife President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. A presidential press officer said the Argentine leader would be leaving at 23:00 hours given the “satisfactory evolution” of the emergency angioplasty he underwent Saturday night.

• Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Ex Argentine president Kirchner undergoes emergency angioplasty

  

  Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner is back in the Los Arcos hospital with heart trouble. There were no immediate announcements from the government, but according to the local Noticias Argentinas news agency, the husband of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Fernandez underwent an angioplasty after he was rushed to a clinic in the capital late Saturday night with numbness in his legs.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 19:30 UTC

  Argentine poor legislation and corruption promote trafficking of persons, says UN

  

  United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking of persons Joy Ngozi Ezeilo advised Argentine authorities that “an ‘urgent’ reform of the governing law for this crime, whose victims do not have protection or access to justice, is urgently needed”.

• Friday, September 10th 2010 - 04:31 UTC

  Kirchner cabinet refutes FT report: no IMF revision of Argentine economy

  

  Argentina is still opposed to having its economy reviewed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), government ministers said on Thursday, refuting recent media reports to the contrary.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:33 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production expands 11.8% in first seven months of 2010

  

  Argentina's industrial production rose sharply on the year in July but slowed somewhat from the brisk pace posted in June, the manufacturing group UIA said in a report Wednesday.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Time Magazine has Cristina Kirchner among the world’s top ten Female Leaders

  

  Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been listed by Time magazine among the top ten Female Leaders of the world. Time says Mrs. Kirchner “has proven to be her own woman” having survived since elected in 2007 several serious standoffs.