Argentina

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentine Air Force tests JF-17 warplanes

  

  A delegation of Argentine Air Force (FAA) officers has visited China's National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC) to further evaluate that country's JF-17 Thunder jets for a possible purchase.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina: Water emergency extended, insufficient rainfall in main rivers' basins

  

  Argentina has announced that it will extend the Water Emergency Crisis warning for another six months due to insufficient rainfall in the Paraná, Paraguay, and Iguazú river basins.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Eichmann audios recorded in Argentina to be released

  

  An Israeli documentary to be released shortly features voice recordings of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Mossad in the early 1960s in San Fernando, north of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was reported.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:43 UTC

  Alberto Fernández eyes Antarctica for May 25 celebration

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has announced he would spend the May 25 National Holiday at a school in the Esperanza Base in Antarctica, weather permitting. The move would allow him to skip the traditional religious service at Buenos Aires' cathedral.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:34 UTC

  Argentina launches website to boost “nature” tourism

  

  Argentina's Ministry of Tourism has launched a new website called “La Ruta Natural” (The Natural Route) to promote domestic trips to the various attractions nationwide.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine officials question city status awarded to Stanley, Falklands capital

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister and the head of the Malvinas, South Atlantic Islands and Antarctica Office strongly questioned the Queen's decision to award city status to the capital of the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  First case of monkeypox detected in Argentina?

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry of Health Sunday announced the first suspected case of monkeypox had been detected in the country and that it was being monitored closely.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 23:03 UTC

  US refineries purchasing more oil and fuel from Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  

  Complying with President Jose Biden's administration sanctions on Russia, United States refiners imported some 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) of Latin American crude and fuel oil, the highest level in seven months, according to US customs data.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentina extends Paraná river water emergency

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández Friday announced it was extending the declaration of emergency for another 180 days in the Paraná River area as water levels remained at historically low levels.

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  INDEC counts 47,327,407 people living in Argentina

  

  Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) Thursday released a preliminary report on Wednesday's survey, which showed 47,327,407 were living in the country.