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  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

    Air Force One touches down - Trump is in BA for G-20 Summit

    Donald Trump and his wife leave the Air Force One behind at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

    The famous Air Force One, a veritable Flying White House, landed in Ezeiza at 10.10 pm amid tight security measures right on time for US President Donald Trump to rest and get ready for Friday's breakfast meeting with his Argentine colleague Mauricio Macri.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 06:14 UTC

    Macron has busy pre G-20 Thursday in BA after sloppy airport welcome

    The two heads of state gave a press conference during which they praised each other.

    His presidential plane landed at Buenos Aires' international Ezeiza airport for the G-20 Summit Wednesday night. After parking, France's Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went down the stairs to greet .... a tarmac worker or two, after which the pair kept walking to their car. Right before getting inside, they were told to go back on their steps and meet Argentine Vicepresident Gabriela Michetti for the official welcome that almost did not happen.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 05:52 UTC

    Falklands voice dismay and praise for second commercial flight

    MLA Roger Spink admitted ”everybody is concerned when you have something that goes via Argentina...that’s why you have these agreements.”

    The proposed second airline service between the Falklands and South America with a once a month stopover in Argentina, drew both strongly voiced concerns and praise at a public meeting held on Wednesday evening in Stanley. Worried citizens suggested Argentina might manipulate Islanders by threatening to interrupt the link to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the longer term.

  • Friday, November 30th 2018 - 02:02 UTC

    Second leg of Libertadores Cup decider set for Dec. 9 in Madrid

    Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium has been picked as the venue where the new Libertadores Cup champions are to be crowned

    The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol)'s disciplinary board Thursday turned down Boca Juniors' request and thus cleared the way for the second leg of the Libertadores Cup final to be played at Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu on December 9, it was announced.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 22:08 UTC

    British PM expected in BA Thursday evening

    Theresa May will become the first British Prime Minister ever to visit Buenos Aires.

    British Prime Minister Theresa May is arriving Thursday evening at the Ezeiza Airport to participate in the G20 Leaders Summit hosted by Argentina, during which she will hold a series of bilateral meetings with some of her peers, including President Mauricio Macri.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 19:22 UTC

    Consensus or Chaos in the G20 Communiqué?

    By Scott Squires (*)“This article was originally published on the Argentina newsletter The Essential, by The Bubble News Inc. on November 29, 2018”. Ahead of any diplomatic summit, staffers, organizers and aides put in the countless hours of thankless grunt work necessary to make international diplomacy happen.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 17:53 UTC

    No talks with Putin at G-20 over Crimea tensions, says Trump enroute to Argentina

    “I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting,” write Trump from aboard Air Force One.

    US President Donald Trump Thursday shocked the world as he announced he would not be meeting one-on-one with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the G-20 Summit in Buenos Aires due to the escalating military crisis in Crimea.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 11:12 UTC

    Cannabis-based meds plant opens in Uruguay

    Uruguay was the first country to legalize marijuana in 2013. The legal sale of marijuana for recreational purposes began in July, 2017.

    ICC Labs Inc., a subsidiary of Canada’s Aurora Cannabis Inc., opened Wednesday in Montevideo and became the subcontinent's first producer of cannabis-derived pharmaceuticals with a capacity “to supply almost the entire South American continent,” according to the company's CEO Alejandro Antalich.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:30 UTC

    World leaders fly to Buenos Aires for G20, but little consensus for a final declaration

    Preparation meeting for G 20. Unity has vanished as the “America First” Trump shreds consensus on international trade and other G20 countries such as Brazil, Italy embrace populism

    United States President Donald Trump jets into Argentina on Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine. The weekend summit is confronted with increasingly dire warnings, by the International Monetary Fund among others, of the potential harm faced by the world economy from Trump's trade wars.

  • Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

    Trump favors imposing tariffs to protect US auto industry; EU ready to react with retaliation tariffs

    In two tweets, Trump said that extending tariffs already in place for foreign-built small trucks to the car sector would help domestic manufacturers.

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday indicated he favours imposing import tariffs to protect the US auto industry, which was rocked by this week's announcement of job cuts at General Motors. In two tweets, the president said that extending tariffs already in place for foreign-built small trucks to the car sector would help domestic manufacturers.