Argentina

• Tuesday, July 25th 2023 - 11:20 UTC

  Uruguayan tourists take their dollars across the border to Argentina

  

  Argentina's economic volatility has become a magnet for Uruguayan travelers during the winter recess, causing significant losses to local businesses, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Sixty years compilation of research on Antarctic ice and topography

  

  In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralized and standardized format, the British Antarctic Survey has announced.

• Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  Women's World Cup, flexible working hours for Brazilian civil servants to support the Canarinhas

  

  The Brazilian government has announced civil servants can turn up to work four hours late when the national side – who go by the nickname As Canarinhas — contests the Women's World Cup tournament, co hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

• Saturday, July 22nd 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine President confident about ongoing negotiations with IMF

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Friday spoke with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to discuss a new understanding ahead of this year's elections, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine FM sends message to his British colleague regarding South Atlantic Islands

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero sent a message to his British colleague James Cleverly saying that “the UK has been violating Argentina's territorial integrity for 190 years.” The British government considered Thursday that a “regrettable choice of words” had been made.

• Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Airport in Argentina closed due to bomb threat

  

  The Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella International Airport serving the Argentine city of Córdoba was closed Thursday after a bomb threat on a Latam Airlines flight bound for Lima, Peru, which in the end departed at 10.53 am instead of at 8.05 am.

• Friday, July 21st 2023 - 10:04 UTC

  Production of lithium batteries to start in September in Argentina

  

  Argentina's first National Plant for the Technological Development of Lithium Cells and Batteries will start production in September on the premises of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Y-TEC (a subsidiary of the state-owned oil company YPF) head Roberto Salvarezza announced Thursday.

• Friday, July 21st 2023 - 09:06 UTC

  Import barriers impact Argentina's health system

  

  High-tech surgeries such as transplants and other treatments have been put on hold in Argentina due to restrictions on imports that have resulted in a lack of medical inputs leading to the suspension of transplants and other treatments, Buenos Aires' Clarín reported.

• Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 23:15 UTC

  Cuban worker in Falklands/Malvinas granted Argentine residence

  

  Argentine immigration authorities Wednesday granted residence to Cuban migrant Yamila Socorro Molina, who lives in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands, it was reported in Buenos Aires. Migrations Director Florencia Carignano said it was a “historical precedent.”

• Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 15:29 UTC

  The Falkland Islands remain clear on their name

  

  Deputy Chair of the Legislative Assembly, MLA Teslyn Barkman said: “Myself and the other Members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly would like to be clear that this news from Brussels changes nothing. The EU themselves have issued a statement to say that they have not changed their views and positions concerning the Falklands.