Politics

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  No installments in Argentine pesos for purchases in foreign currency

  

  Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) Thursday ruled that international travel tickets and other tourism items purchased through credit cards and whose values are expressed in US dollars or any other foreign currency but converted to Argentine pesos on the date of the operation cannot be split into monthly payments.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Ushuaia creates a Malvinas Affairs Secretariat in the framework of the 40th anniversary

  

  Imbibed with the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict spirit, the city of Ushuaia decided to elevate the department which dealt with Malvinas Islands issues, to the rank of Secretariat, thus “reaffirming the will of Ushuaia residents as the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands”.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  “Auxilio Brasil” intended to benefit 17 million families with monthly payments approved in Congress

  

  The massive social welfare program, Auxilio Brasil, promoted by the administration of president Jair Bolsonaro was passed this week in the Lower House and is expected to be approved in the Senate where leaders have promised to address it as a priority.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Case of Argentine Ambassador in Bolivia to be brought before Congress in BA

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers have announced they would ask President Alberto Fernández to sack Adrián Basteiro as Ambassador to Bolivia after the diplomat was found engaging in domestic political acts in violation of international conventions regarding Consular representations.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Falklands member of the Table Tennis Federation, despite Argentina's objection

  

  Argentina lost to the Falkland Islands at the International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF, where overwhelming support had the Islands registered as an independent member. This despite the strong allegations from the Argentine Table Tennis Federation president Fernando Joffre, at the ITTF annual assembly.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site

  

  The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces at the beginning of World War II, has been ferried by lorry to Punta del Este to be a part of the Memorial site to be opened before the end of the year.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Honduras to choose new president amid increasing violence

  

  Honduras goes to the polls Sunday amid growing concern over increasing violence, according to the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights (former Chilean two-time President Michelle Bachelet), the Croatian MEP Željana Zovko, head of the European Union's (EU) Observation Mission.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Italy rescues the green-eyed “Afghan girl” from the Taliban chaotic country

  

  The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated from Afghanistan.

• Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  China's best tennis player sexually abused, censored and disappeared by the Communist Party

  

  By Yan Bennett and John Garrick – Chinese tennis star, Peng Shuai's apparent disappearance may have ended with a smattering of public events, which were carefully curated by state-run media and circulated in online clips. But many questions remain about the three weeks in which she was missing, and concerns linger over her well-being.

• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 11:51 UTC

  Argentine Ambassador involved in pro-Evo political demonstrations in Bolivia

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Bolivia Adrián Basteiro came under criticism once again Thursday for participating in a demonstration of Bolivia's ruling party Movement Towards Socialism headed by former President Evo Morales.