Argentina

• Saturday, June 24th 2017 - 12:24 UTC

  Falklands demining team have recovered over 3,000 anti-personnel mines and over 150 anti-tank mines.

  

  SINCE their deployment in October 2016 through to June 2017, the BACTEC teams have worked on 47 minefield areas from Fox Bay, Port Howard and Goose Green to the Stanley area. The team will now leave for three months before continuing the current phase.

• Saturday, June 24th 2017 - 01:53 UTC

  UN C24 calls for negotiations over Falkland Islands sovereignty between Argentina, UK yet again

  

  President Mauricio Macri's administration Friday renewed Argentina's case before the United Nations' Decolonization Committee in New York to bring the United Kingdom to discuss sovereignty over the Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and their surrounding maritime spaces.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2017 - 13:43 UTC

  Norwegian announces new London to Argentina route as UK growth continues

  

  Buenos Aires becomes airline’s first South American route - New affordable fares break current monopoly on direct London-Argentina flights. Norwegian has announced a new route from London Gatwick to Buenos Aires, marking the airline’s first ever South American route as its UK expansion plans gather pace.

• Thursday, June 22nd 2017 - 02:11 UTC

  Argentina to appear before UN Decolonization Committee as one on Falkland/Malvinas Islands case

  

  The entire political spectrum will join forces behind newly-appointed Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie as new appeal for UK to discuss sovereignty is expected to be launched.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2017 - 05:08 UTC

  Argentina: Nazi paraphernalia stash found in Buenos Aires suburb

  

  Around 75 artifacts believed to have belonged to high-ranking nazi officers, which were stashed in a private collector's home in Beccar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, were found by Argentine police. The discovery is regarded to be further proof of the presence of Nazis in South America after World War II.

• Wednesday, June 21st 2017 - 04:43 UTC

  CFK launches new left-wing alliance for mid-term elections

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Tuesday launched her new political alliance called Unidad Ciudadana with support from left-wing parties to vie for seats in Congress in the upcoming mid-term elections. Candidates have until Saturday to register.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2017 - 20:34 UTC

  Argentine Army's website hacked - by ISIS?

  

  The Argentine Army issued a press release through its Department of Institutional Communication to address the computer attack suffered in the previous hours and inform that the case had been reported to the judiciary's Specialized Cybercrime Unit (UFECI) and that “none of the critical computer systems had been affected.”

• Monday, June 19th 2017 - 12:47 UTC

  Identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Falklands begins

  

  As per the agreement between Argentina and Great Britain, the task is carried out by a mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Relatives of the fallen feel mixed emotions.Thirty-five years after the war and after prolonged negotiations between the two governments, the ICRC mission is already on the islands to begin as soon as weather permits it the exhumation of 123 Of the 237 graves under a plaque “Argentine Soldier only known to God.”

• Monday, June 19th 2017 - 10:07 UTC

  At least three killed as Argentine fishing boat sinks off Chubut

  

  Argentine Coast Guard found Sunday the dead body of two of the nine crew members missing after Saturday's sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast of Argentina's southern province of Chubut, it was reported, while one more sailor whose body is yet to be retrieved is also feared dead and seven more are still missing.

• Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 16:06 UTC

  Ambassador Kent: “Bilateral ties improving but Falkland islanders will define their own future”

  

  The British ambassador to Argentina, Mark Kent, underlined the United Kingdom's intentions to “improve” bilateral relations and admitted a meeting between President Mauricio Macri and Prime Minister Theresa May within the framework of the G20 was possible. However, he made it clear that with regards to the Falkland Islands question “the islanders have the right to define their own future.”