Argentina

• Thursday, September 11th 2025 - 09:30 UTC

  Tickets for flights between Shanghai and Buenos Aires available

  

  China Eastern Airlines has begun selling tickets for its new flights from Shanghai to Buenos Aires, which are scheduled to commence on December 4. The new service will become the world's longest direct flight by duration, lasting some 29 hours with a technical stopover in Auckland, New Zealand, for refueling.

• Wednesday, September 10th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

  IMF supports Argentina despite electoral setback

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) publicly reaffirmed on Tuesday its support for the Argentine Government's economic program despite Sunday's electoral loss in the province of Buenos Aires. This move is seen as a crucial effort to calm markets that reacted with panic to the election results.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

  Milei creates committee to weather post-election crisis

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will form a new national political committee and has called for dialogue with governors nationwide, following Sunday's crushing defeat against Peronism-Kirchnerism in the province of Buenos Aires' midterm federal elections, Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced on Monday.

• Tuesday, September 9th 2025 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentine-born woman killed in Jerusalem terrorist attack

  

  Argentine-born Sara Mariela Voloj de Mendelson was among the six people killed by Palestinian terrorists on a Jerusalem bus on her way to work on Monday. Voloj, aged 57, was also the only woman to have died in the incident, which also left 13 people wounded.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 19:15 UTC

  Argentina: Dollar jumps after Sunday's midterm elections in BA province

  

  The results of Sunday's midterm elections in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires pushed the US dollar above the AR$1,400 cap, given the poor performance of President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and, with it, the resurrection of Peronism-Kirchnerism. In addition, Argentine stock abroad fell sharply, coupled with a spike in the country's risk rating.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Milei's party dealt heavy blow in province of Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei's ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) suffered a severe blow on Sunday in the midterm elections in the province of Buenos Aires at the hands of arch-rivals Fuerza Patria, the name under which Kirchnerism-Peronism entered the contest. Turnout stood at 63%.

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentine finalists of Regional Student Competition to visit “my neighbors in the Falkland Islands”

  

  The British Embassy in Argentina announces the 10 finalists from Argentina to the Regional Student Competition 2025/2026. The applicants answered the question “Why would I like to meet my neighbors in the Falkland Islands?” in a video.

• Saturday, September 6th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Buenos Aires province elections could tip the balance of Milei's future

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires heads into Sunday's midterm elections as a beacon of what may happen in the rest of the country later this year, which could decide President Javier Milei's future, particularly following recent significant setbacks in the Upper House.

• Saturday, September 6th 2025 - 10:16 UTC

  Man arrested in Mar del Plata for posting pro-Hamas content

  

  A man was arrested on Friday in the Argentine beach resort and port of Mar del Plata following a tip from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which noticed that the suspect was posting antisemitic content on social media and encouraging the pro-Palestine terrorist organization Hamas.

• Friday, September 5th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

  Argentine Senate overrides Milei's veto against Emergency Disability Law

  

  Argentina's Senate voted Thursday by 63 to 7 to override President Javier Milei’s veto of the Disability Emergency Law, making it the first time in 22 years that Congress has successfully overturned a presidential thumbs down.