Tag: Argentina

• 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 - 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 - 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.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:30 UTC

  “Fake security threats” in Buenos Aires ahead of the G20 leaders' summit

  

  Bomb threats, false alarms and the discovery of grenades have put security forces in Buenos Aires City on high alert, just days before the world's most powerful leaders converge on Argentina for the G20 Leaders Summit at the turn of the month.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Government fails to strip Cristina Fernandez of her parliamentary immunity

  

  Argentina ex-president and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will retain her parliamentary immunity for the rest of the year following the ruling coalition's Senate block failed attempt on Tuesday afternoon to address the issue.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:38 UTC

  CFK: Macri merely a manager of policies imposed from abroad

  

  Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández Kirchner (CFK) Monday criticized the administration of her successor Mauricio Macri in a speech that lasted over an hour at the anti-G20 summit in Buenos Aires, saying - among other things - that by taking a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the current president merely manages what is dictated to him.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 07:06 UTC

  Israel intelligence helps Argentina arrest suspected members of Hezbollah

  

  A terror plot against Jewish targets was thwarted when the Mossad intelligence service passed information to Argentine security officials which led to the arrest of suspected members of the Hezbollah terrorist group, Hadashot TV reported Monday.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2018 - 06:06 UTC

  G20 summit in Buenos Aires City: Security minister suggests residents leave the city over the long weekend

  

  Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has warned Buenos Aires City residents that the staging of the G20 Leaders Summit at the turn of the month will make things very “complicated” in the City, telling residents they should use the long weekend to leave Buenos Aires for a few days.