Argentina

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 06:56 UTC

  Chevening Scholarships awarded to 19 students from Argentina

  

  Every year, a number of Chevening Scholarships are awarded to students from Argentina with outstanding academic performance and leadership qualities, allowing them full funding to undertake postgraduate studies in universities in the UK.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Scholarships for Falklands' alumni to continue their graduate and postgraduate studies in Argentina

  

  Argentina has launched a program of scholarships for Falkland Islands' students, who “have the full right to access the Argentine national education system”, announced Daniel Filmus, head of the Malvinas and Antarctica Department, and Jaime Perczyk chairman of the Ministry of Education University Policies.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine freezes meat prices, exports to resume next week but not of all cuts

  

  Argentine Minister of Productive Development Matías Kulfas Sunday admitted the administration of President Alberto Fernández plans to both ban exports of the beef cuts most coveted by local consumers and freeze domestic prices until late this year.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 15:17 UTC

  Argentina records first “black fungus” death

  

  A 35-year-old man who had had coronavirus and medical history of diabetes has been recorded as Argentina's first death caused by “black fungus,” it was announced Friday.

• Friday, June 18th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentina hopes to resume beef exports next week

  

  Argentina's Minister of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, Thursday said meat exports are to resume next week after details to ensure proper supply to local consumers are fine-tuned.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  President Fernández not welcome at Salta for 200th anniversary of Argentine hero Güemes' death

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández was jeered as he was driven from the Salta airport to the provincial capital downtown for the ceremonies marking the 200th anniversary of the death of national and local hero General Martín Miguel de Güemes.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  May's inflation in Argentina was 3.3%: What will happen after the elections?

  

  Argentina's inflation in May was 3.3% for a year-on-year accumulation of 48.8%, the highest mark since March 2020, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC)

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands dispute: Solá heads the Argentine mission to the C24 conference

  

  June is a hectic month for the dispute between Argentina and UK regarding the British Overseas Territory Falkland Islands, with a string of remembrance dates referred to the ongoing disagreement.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  When 26 OAS countries condemned human rights violations in Nicaragua, Argentina was among the 5 who abstained

  

  A resolution by the Organization of American States (OAS) condemning human rights violations and massive arrests of opposition leaders by Nicaragua was supported by 26 countries, opposed by three (one of them Nicaragua), while five nations abstained from voting either way. Argentina was one of them.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Russia invites Argentine officials to visit nuclear power plant similar to the one planned for South Atlantic

  

  Russia's intentions to install nuclear power plants in Argentina took a new step Monday as the Rosatom agency invited Argentine officials over to visit its floating plant in Siberia.