Argentina

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentina's wealthiest businessman indicted as part of a graft case

  

  The Argentine judge overseeing an investigation into the so-called notebook scandal has indicted billionaire Paolo Rocca as part of a graft case. Shares of steel pipe-maker Tenaris SA, in which he is the majority shareholder, plunged in Italy.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires sealed off for G20; anarchists and anti capitalists pledge to stage protests

  

  Argentine authorities say that Buenos Aires will be an armored city when world leaders arrive for this week's G-20 summit. But security failures that marred a football championship and deeper unrest over an economic austerity program are raising concerns about the country's ability to ensure safety.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 20:11 UTC

  Air link from Cordoba to the Falklands confirmed by UK and Argentina

  

  The governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom reached an understanding to establish a second commercial air link to the islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) confirmed on Tuesday followed by an official statement of the embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 17:12 UTC

  Conmebol rules River-Boca must play Dec. 8 or 9 outside Argentina

  

  The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) Tuesday ruled that the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final between River Plate and Boca Juniors will be played somewhere outside Argentina on December 8 or 9, it was announced in a statement from its headquarters in Asunción.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 14:41 UTC

  HRW wants Saudi Crown Prince tried in Argentina over Khashoggi, Yemen crimes

  

  As Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is about to arrive in Argentina for the upcoming G-20 Summit, a US-based human rights NGO Monday filed a request before Buenos Aires Federal Judge Ariel Lijo that the Universal Justice criteria be applied to him as intellectual author of the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, October 2 last, and for crimes against humanity in Yemen.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 10:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires Security Minister takes the fall for Saturday's incidents

  

  Buenos Aires City Security Minister Martín Ocampo Monday resigned his post, thus taking the blame for Saturday's sloppy operation which failed to prevent the bus carrying the Boca Juniors players to River Plate's Monumental stadium from being attacked by hooligans of the home team.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  IMF praises Argentina's reforms program and anticipates rebound of activity in 2019

  

  The International Monetary Fund has completed its second review of Argentina, the fund said on Monday, paving the way for the country to receive US$7.6 billion under a US$ 56.3 billion financing deal.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Succesful identification of the 105 Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat Claudio Avruj announced on Monday the identification of the 105th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands under a gravestone that read “Argentine soldier, only known upon God”. Claudio Alfredo Bastida was a 19-year-old conscript who died in the Mount Longdon battle on 12 June 1982.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  US and Argentina ready to sign a two-way fresh beef deal

  

  Argentina is on the verge of signing a deal with the United States that would allow two-way trade of fresh beef for the first time in nearly two decades, the country's international trade secretary, Marisa Bircher, said. The agreement, expected to be signed within days, would simultaneously open beef imports to both countries, Bircher told Reuters in an interview.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  Trump downplays a trade deal with China ahead of Saturday's meeting with Xi in Buenos Aires

  

  United States president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on Saturday in Argentina on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, a U.S. media outlet reported on Monday. The two leaders will meet a day after the United States, Mexico and Canada sign a new trilateral trade agreement, the online edition of Inside U.S. Trade said.