Argentina

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 18:29 UTC

  EU/UK Epica project to determine Antarctica age by drilling the ice core

  

  Scientists have returned to East Antarctica this month to locate the oldest ice on Earth. The team is part of an EU-funded research consortium from 10 European countries whose aim is to drill an ice core to capture 1.5 million years of Earth’s climate history. The project, Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, will answer important questions about big shifts in the past record of Earth’s climate.

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  COVID-19 keeps spreading in Argentina: 7 people reported dead

  

  Argentine health authorities have announced an alarming increase in the number of cases of COVID-19, which has doubled in the past week and grown above 1100% in one month. COVID-19-related deaths were reported to have amounted to 7 last week.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentina's black players: A WaPo article on race revisited

  

  By Mordechai Taji - A Washington Post article last week resurfaced the issue that Argentina's national football team featured no black players, as opposed to Germany, Spain, France, and other European squads.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 08:11 UTC

  Argentina to reopen embassy in Bangladesh

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero announced his country would be reopening its embassy in Bangladesh after 40 years, a decision most likely boosted by the Asian country's support of Lionel Messi's team playing the football World Cup in Qatar.

• Saturday, December 10th 2022 - 00:14 UTC

  Argentina reaches Qatar semifinals after cliffhanger win on penalties over The Netherlands

  

  Lionel Messi's Argentina set up a semifinal date with Croatia at the 2022 Qatar football World Cup with a 4-3 win over The Netherlands on penalties after a 2-2 draw.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 22:54 UTC

  FIG Reception in London: “Falkland Islanders still face threats to our very existence from our nearest neighbour”

  

  A special Falkland Islands Government (FIG) London Office 40th anniversary reception was held in the Durbar Court at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Wednesday, and brought to a close a year of events marking the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  Environmental emergency decreed in Argentina's Tierra del Fuego due to forest fires

  

  Authorities in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego have declared an environmental emergency this week and extended a ban on lighting fires in wild areas until 2024 due to the increasing number of forest fires.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentina: COVID-19 spreading faster in Province of BA that in CABA

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires has reported the fastest pace in the growing number of COVID-19 cases, surpassing that of the City of Buenos Aires which was leading national statistics up until this week.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  CFK tests positive for COVID-19, Puebla Group Summit adjourned

  

  Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, after which all her engagements were called off and a gathering of Puebla Group leaders scheduled for later this month in Buenos Aires has been rescheduled, it was announced.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 11:53 UTC

  Francis kisses and blesses an Argentine flag and received soil from the Falklands cemetery

  

  Pope Francis on Wednesday received the head of the Buenos Aires Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, who visited him at his official residence in the Vatican, and as a gift gave him some soil from the Falklands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin.