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Montevideo, July 5th 2025 - 06:55 UTC

Argentina

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 21:04 UTC

    Milei confirms Argentina's Embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem

    Milei also recalled the two antisemitic terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s

    Argentine President Javier Milei announced Wednesday during his speech before the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) that the South American country would be relocating its Embassy to West Jerusalem in 2026. The first Argentine president ever to address the Knesset, Milei condemned the Oct. 7 attack by the terrorist group Hamas and demanded the release of all Argentine hostages.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    CFK's conviction saga includes attack on TV station and marketing boom

    Opportunity snatchers from both ends of the political spectrum launched T-shirts and other items defending either the former president or the judiciary's ruling mandating her imprisonment

    Following Argentine Supreme Court's (CSJN) ruling Tuesday upholding a six-year prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in addition to a lifetime disenfranchisement in the so-called Vialidad case, a group of her supporters stormed into the Canal 13 and Todo Noticias (TN) building in Buenos Aires, breaking glasses, smashing cars, and throwing stones and blunt objects.

  • Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 09:32 UTC

    Milei thanks Macron for France's support before the IMF

    Milei's presence at an event focused on environmental issues came as a surprise

    Before flying to Israel, Argentine President Javier Milei met in Nice this week with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron during the United Nations Oceans Conference to discuss the long-stalled Mercosur-European Union trade agreement.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 22:52 UTC

    CFK faces arrest and political lifelong ban

    CFK is likely to be granted house arrest given her age

    Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) unanimously upheld a six-year prison sentence and lifelong disenfranchisement from public office for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) in the Vialidad case, which involved irregularities in awarding 51 public road works contracts in Santa Cruz to businessman Lázaro Báez.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 21:58 UTC

    Argentina commemorates 10 June as Reaffirmation Day of Rights over South Atlantic Islands

    Buenos Aires Governor Martin Rodríguez

    Argentina commemorates 10 June as the Reaffirmation Day of Argentine Rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and surrounding maritime spaces. A commemoration that has its roots on a fundamental event that took place in 1829, according to an official release from the Argentine foreign ministry.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    Incarceration is a “dignity certificate,” CFK claims

    “I will be in jail, but the people will be worse every day,” CFK warned

    Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) said her likely imprisonment, to be probably ruled upon Tuesday by the Supreme Court (CSJN), was a “certificate of dignity,” contrasting her situation with those accused of corruption during the Macrismo government, who -she claimed- faced no consequences.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:35 UTC

    Milei lands in Israel and prays at the Wailing Wall

    Milei will stay in Israel for a few days to receive an accolade and sign a key understanding with Netanyahu

    After arriving in Israel on Monday, Argentine President Javier Milei's first activity was to pray at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, alongside his Presidential Secretary and sister Karina Milei, Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Argentine Ambassador to Tel Aviv Axel Wahnish, and Israel's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Eyal Sela.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 09:06 UTC

    Uruguayan version of Milei's LLA launched

    Uruguay is dying because of collectivist ideologies, Quintana argued

    Little-known Uruguayan politician Nicolás Quintana Monday presided over the launch of the local version of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Argentine President Javier Milei's party, which now has its own version across the River Plate.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 08:54 UTC

    Uruguay's political coexistence highlighted in Buenos Aires

    Uruguay's are the oldest political parties together with the British, the History Professor Orsi explained

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, alongside former presidents Luis Lacalle Pou and Julio María Sanguinetti, received the Anne Frank Award in Buenos Aires for his country's democratic commitment, institutional respect, and peaceful coexistence. The trio arrived together on a private flight and attended the gala event downtown.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 19:35 UTC

    CFK followers planning response in case former president's conviction is upheld

    The CSJN is expected to uphold CFK's conviction Tuesday, thus exhausting the chain of appeals, which would result in her detention

    Followers of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) were planning a response at the Instituto Patria (IP) headquarters in Buenos Aires, should the Supreme Court uphold the six-year prison sentence against their leader, thus exhausting the chain of appeals, which would lead to her arrest, even though she could later apply for a home detention regime for which she would be eligible for being aged over 70.