Argentina

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 01:52 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production marked a modest 0.2% rise in January

  

  Argentina's industrial production started the year with a modest improvement rising 0.2% in January from a year earlier after output shrank 1.2% in 2012 as a whole, government data showed. Factory output rose 0.6% in January compared with December, seasonally adjusted.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2013 - 00:59 UTC

  Argentine born MEP shocks UK politics by abandoning independents and joining the Tories

  

  Argentine born Marta Andreasen a UK south east region MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for the UK Independent Party has said she is leaving the party to join the Conservatives.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2013 - 00:10 UTC

  Argentina accused UK of sending submarines with nuclear weapons capacity to the Falklands

  

  Argentina accused the UK of displacement of submarines with nuclear weapons capacity in the Falkland Islands, violating international treaties that established the South Atlantic zone as free of nuclear arms. The claim was made on Monday at the United Nations Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 06:36 UTC

  Argentina celebrates Africa’s 54 countries support for Malvinas sovereignty

  

  Africa’s fifty four countries joined South America “in recognizing the legitimate sovereignty rights of Argentina over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and the adjoining maritime spaces”, announced the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a communiqué in reference to the so called Declaration of Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 06:22 UTC

  Argentina and ‘holdout hedge funds’ prepare for the final clash this week

  

  The long-awaited showdown in a US appeals court this week pits Argentina against a group of investors who refused to swap their debt after the country's historic 2002 default.

• Monday, February 25th 2013 - 05:59 UTC

  The Argentina/Iran understanding according to The Teheran Times

  

  The Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, between Argentina and Iran to investigate the 1994 bombing in downtown Buenos Aires, will be discussed in Argentina’s Lower House after having received approval in the Senate.

• Saturday, February 23rd 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Massive and emotive ceremony to remember victims of Buenos Aires worst train accident

  

  On the first anniversary of Buenos Aires city worst train accident that left 51 people dead at the downtown Once station, families and friends of the victims held a ceremony to remember those who lost their lives and called for justice as they targeted Government officials from the administration of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Friday, February 22nd 2013 - 04:59 UTC

  March and blackout to remember victims of Buenos Aires worst train station accident

  

  Relatives of the victims of Buenos Aires busiest railway station tragedy confirmed a demonstration at Plaza de Mayo for Friday to mark the first anniversary of the accident, February 22, 2012, and in which 51 people perished and over 700 were injured.

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 05:27 UTC

  Mercosur begins technical meetings for new proposals on trade accord with EU

  

  Mercosur will retake next March technical discussions for a new proposal to be presented to the European Union for a trade and cooperation agreement, announced Argentine Foreign minister Hector Timerman next to his peer Antonio Patriota following bilateral talks on Wednesday in Rio do Janeiro.

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 00:24 UTC

  Pinochet generals and ministers incognito and “non official” visits to UK

  

  The fluid relation between Pinochet’s regime in Chile and the UK following Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 is not nothing new, however declassified British documents of the time to which BBC World had access, reveal the intensity of those links in defence and political issues, including in March/April 1982 when the Argentine military invasion of the Falkland Islands.