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Argentina

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 13:27 UTC

    Heavy smoke from Bolivian fires threatens large parts of Argentina

    A cloud of thick smoke is expected to reach Buenos Aires between Monday and Tuesday

    A large cloud of smoke stemming from wildfires in Bolivia threatens to cover the skies of 15 Argentine provinces and even reach the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) between Monday and Tuesday, due to which “phenomena that may represent inconveniences or difficulties in the normal development in social life are expected,” according to the National Meteorological Service (SMN).

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:14 UTC

    Argentina dispatches a research cruise on Patagonian toothfish

    The area under research is located between parallels 54 and 55 degrees South and Meridians 61 to 64, West.

    Argentina has launched a research cruise on Patagonian tooth fish (Dissostichus eleginoides) to collect more information on the reproduction physiology of the species. The fishing factory vessel San Arawa II left Ushuaia with a team of scientists from INIDEP, the Mar del Plata based Fisheries Research and Development Institute, and the cruise is expected to last some three weeks.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 08:52 UTC

    Croatian vessel halts traffic for 12 hours through Paraná Waterwa

    The Croatian-flagged AP Revelin has a draft of 9.54 meters when the maximum is 8.88 meters given the low water levels

    Trade sailing through the Paraná Waterway collapsed for 12 hours Saturday between San Nicolás and Ramallo when the Croatian-flagged bulk carrier AP Revelin ran aground, thus hindering traffic both ways as low water levels keep affecting business. In this scenario, several barges were advised not to set sail.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

    Chavista groups withdraw from Argentine Embassy adjacencies

    Brazil remains for now guarding Argentina's Embassy in Caracas

    Venezuelan pro-government militias were reported to have stopped stalking the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas after former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia arrived in Spain as an asylum seeker.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 06:58 UTC

    Argentina's Cabinet Chief hospitalized but “stable”

    Francos' hospitalization came ahead of a week riddled with key discussions for the Libertarian administration in both Houses of Congress

    Argentina's 74-year-old Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos was hospitalized this weekend at a Buenos Aires sanatorium but reported to be stable. He will not be discharged until further studies are conducted.

  • Saturday, September 7th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Paraguay and Argentina reach understanding on Waterway tolls

    A mechanism was also established for the reimbursements of fees paid in excess since February last year, it was explained

    The governments of Paraguay and Argentina have reached an understanding regarding the collection of tolls on the latter's part for the use of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, it was announced.

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

    Explosive device goes off at Argentine Rural Society President's office

    In the aftermath of these events, Pino postponed a meeting at Casa Rosada with Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos scheduled for later Thursday

    An explosive device went off Thursday at the headquarters of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) in Buenos Aires. There were no fatalities but SRA President Santiago Pino's secretary and other people were reported to have been wounded.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 14:35 UTC

    Uruguay welcomes Argentina's support to Mercosur countries negotiating solo if necessary

    “It is always better to go all together,” said Paganini. But if that is not possible, negotiations should be undertaken “individually or with the countries that can,” he added

    The Uruguayan Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou has found in Javier Milei's Argentina the partner it longed for within the Southern Common Market to clear the way for individual members of the bloc to seek unilateral trade alliances with other countries or regional alliances. In this scenario, Foreign Minister Omar Paganini Wednesday welcomed Buenos Aires' endorsement to make Mercosur more flexible.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 13:48 UTC

    French rugby players involved in rape case in Mendoza fly back home

    Araudou and Jégou boarded an Air France flight from Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport to Paris Charles De Gaulle

    French international rugbiers Hugo Araudou and Oscar Jégou boarded an Air France regular flight to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport Wednesday after facing the consequences of a criminal complaint against both of them filed by a 39-year-old woman in the Argentine city of Mendoza, who claimed she had been sexually abused during an encounter at their hotel following a match between La Bleu and The Pumas.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Argentina, only country in the region with a contracting economy

    More and more Argentines keep falling daily into poverty or indigence

    Less than a year into the government of Libertarian President Javier Milei, Argentina will be the only country in the region with negative growth in 2024, according to projections by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ECLAC, and BBVA, which forecast a 3.2% contraction of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in South America's second-largest economy.