Argentina

Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Argentine air force planning to purchase some ten South Korea's FA-50 fighter

The Argentine air force has selected South Korea’s FA-50 as its next fighter, Jane's reported this week. The decision is good news for a once-proud air arm that, in recent years, has precipitously declined in size and effectiveness. Argentine officials as early as 2016 had asked to evaluate the twin-seat, supersonic FA-50, Jane's reported.
Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 00:44 UTC
Messi fined US$ 1,500 and suspended from Argentina's first qualifying match for 2022 World Cup

Lionel Messi was suspended from Argentina's first qualifying march for the 2022 World Cup and fined US$1,500 by South American soccer's governing body.
Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 15:41 UTC
Sir Alan Duncan instrumental in Argentina/UK reconciliation resigned ahead of Johnson's nomination

British minister and longstanding critic of Boris Johnson quit on Monday, the latest resignation before the new prime minister takes office with a “do or die” pledge to take Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal.
Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:50 UTC
Argentine fisheries exports stable during the first half of 2019

Argentina's fish, seafood and sea shell landings increased 8.8% during the first six months of the year compared to the same period in 2018. Exports, on the other hand, slid 0.3% as did income generated, 2.9%, according to the latest release from the country's Fisheries Under Secretariat.
Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Bariloche airport reopens after closing Saturday due to heavy snow in west Argentina

The international airport at the Argentine winter sports resort of Bariloche resumed operations Sunday morning following a decision to close it Saturday due to heavy snowing despite a record-setting peak season demand .
Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 11:43 UTC
Pompeo in Buenos Aires at counter-terrorism summit offers US$ 7 million for info on Hezbollah leader

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed on Friday in Argentina that the United States has imposed financial sanctions against a Hezbollah militant group leader suspected of directing a deadly bombing in 1994 of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured hundreds.
Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 08:30 UTC
Meeting in Buenos Aires of the Scientific Sub Committee of the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission

The elected government of the Falkland Islands reported on Friday that the Scientific Sub Committee of the South Atlantic Fisheries Commission met in Buenos Aires on 17 and 18 July 2019. The SAFC was first established in 1990 and this was the third meeting to take place since the reestablishment of regular meetings in 2018.
Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 07:59 UTC
One of the great contemporary architects, Argentine Cesar Pelli dies at 92

César Pelli, the Argentine designer behind the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, has died aged 92, state media and officials said on Friday, marking the passing of one of the contemporary architectural greats.
Friday, July 19th 2019 - 10:48 UTC
Macri wants those behind the AMIA attack to be tried in Argentina

Argentine President Mauricio Macri Thursday pledged to continue to seek that the people involved in the 1994 bombing of the Israeli Social Service Associacion (AMIA) “be tried in Argentine territory” to bring impunity to an end, once “the weight of the law has reached those responsible.”
Thursday, July 18th 2019 - 23:55 UTC
Falklands/Malvinas war experience conference forcibly cancelled at Buenos Aires college

An open conference by two Argentine Air Force pilots at an elite college in Buenos Aires had to be suspended following “ill-treatment” and overall questioning of Argentine armed forces conduct by the students and apparently one of the parents that were also invited to the event.