Argentina

Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 03:07 UTC
Labour strike grounds all Aerolíneas Argentinas flights for November 26

Aerolíneas Argentinas has cancelled all flights scheduled for this coming Monday, Nov. 26, due to a workers' strike, it was announced Friday.A total 371 flights are to be grounded, affecting the travel plans of over 40,000 passengers, which will cost the state-run company around 20 million US dollars in losses.
Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 09:45 UTC
Argentina: waiting for a strong agriculture recovery to help end recession

The industrial production in Argentina dropped 4.8% in October compared to the same period a year ago, accumulating a seven-month consecutive slide, according to the Center of Economic Studies from Orlando Ferreres. Between January and October manufacturing activity registers a 3.5% contraction relative to the same period in 2017.
Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 09:44 UTC
New Zealand promotes trade and farm expertise with Argentina and Uruguay

Farmers, dairy product manufacturers and trade representatives in Uruguay and Argentina are hearing a New Zealand take on current agricultural issues this week.
Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 08:59 UTC
May and Macri will announce the Falklands' second commercial flight with a stopover in Cordoba, insists Ambito

The Argentine financial newspaper Ambito Financiero is insisting with its version of the agreement reached on the second commercial flight of the Falklands to the region, which is anticipates will be formally announced by president Mauricio Macri and UK Prime Minister Theresa May when they meet next 30 November in Buenos Aires in the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit.
Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 07:41 UTC
Argentina announces the name of its 104 combatant buried in the Falklands

Argentina announced the full name of the 104th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin. According to the Human Rights Secretariat, conscript Fabricio Edgar Carrascull, born in Cordoba province was 18 when he died at the Goose Green battle on 28 May 1982.
Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 03:57 UTC
Falklands says a decision on a second flight stopover in Argentina “has yet to be made”

* MLA Elsby anticipates the public will be engaged on the final proposal. A final decision on where in Argentina a second commercial flight from the Falklands to a third country in the region will land “has yet to be made,” assured Member of Legislative Assembly Barry Elsby on Thursday.
Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 20:23 UTC
Putin meeting with Saudi crown prince in BA cannot be ruled out

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud during the upcoming G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires is not to be ruled out, according to a Kremlin official source.
Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 15:14 UTC
Interpol: Argentina's Roncaglia enters exec committee - Chile picked for 2019 meeting

Chile has been chosen to host the 2019 International Police Organisation (Interpol) general assembly, while Argentine Federal Police Chief Néstor Roncaglia was among the six new members elected for three-year terms into the body's 13-member executive committee, it was announced in Dubai on Wednesday.
Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 10:00 UTC
Falklands second commercial flight agreed: Sao Paulo with a stopover at Cordoba, says Ambito Financiero

The second commercial flight from the Falkland Islands to a third country in the region with a stopover in an Argentine airport has been agreed, according to reports in Ambito Financiero, a Buenos Aires financial daily.
Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 17:49 UTC
Aluminum producer Aluar profits 54% up thanks to devaluation of Argentine peso

The aluminum producer Aluar will distribute dividends among its shareholders for $ 2,884 billion (79.71 million US dollars) as a result of an increase in semiannual profits of 54.5%, the company reported to Argentina's stock exchange regulator Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV), which was due mainly to the peso devaluation.