Tag: Buenos Aires

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina approves growing GM drought resistant wheat; needs OK from its principal market, Brazil

  

  Argentina has become the first country to approve the growth and consumption of genetically modified wheat, the country's agriculture ministry announced. The ministry's scientific commission said in a statement released in Buenos Aires that it had approved a drought-resistant variety of wheat in the world's fourth-largest exporter of the crop.

• Saturday, October 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Controversy in Buenos Aires City over live facial recognition to identify minors

  

  Human Rights Watch wants the city of Buenos Aires to stop using live facial recognition to identify children accused of committing crimes, the rights group said on Friday. New York-based Human Rights Watch said Buenos Aires started using the technology in 2019, making Argentina the only country in the world to deploy it against people under the age of 18.

• Thursday, October 8th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Argentina: hogs from an overturned truck slaughtered in the highway by thieves

  

  A truck carrying live pigs turned over in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, and neighbors and other cars looted the cargo and in some cases slaughtered the animals in the highway. The accident took place in the access of Coronale Vidal, some 300 kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Buenos Aires province police force, 90,000 strong, ceases activities demanding higher pay

  

  The police force from the province of Buenos Aires have ceased activities for the second day running on Tuesday to demand higher salaries and better working conditions for the beat in metropolitan Buenos Aires where criminality and insecurity are rampant.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentina confirms 8,713 new cases of Covid-19 and 381 deaths in the last 24 hours

  

  Argentina confirmed a record 8,713 new cases of coronavirus on Monday and 381 resulting deaths in just 24 hours, as the country battles a surge of contagions. The country's health ministry said that just weeks into a stricter quarantine in the capital Buenos Aires and its suburbs, cases were now springing up in other regions of the country.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Thousands waving national flags demonstrate across Argentina to protest against government plans

  

  Thousands of demonstrators across Argentina's main cities defied social distancing rules to answer calls to protest against a government announcement last Friday to extend containment measures in the Buenos Aires region until Aug 30 and to condemn a controversial reform of the judicial branch.

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Approval of Argentine president pandemic policies eroding, but concern with the virus is still very strong

  

  Approval of Argentine president Alberto Fernandez handling of the pandemic continued to slide during the last week and is at levels similar to those at the start of the quarantine, according to the latest opinion poll from Poliarquia made public over the weekend in Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina to announce quarantine extension to 17 July in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández together with Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof and the head of the Buenos Aires City government, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, agreed on Thursday to further implement mobility restrictions, including “a strong decline in vehicle circulation” in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA).

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Argentine couple finally collects their child in Kiev born to a surrogate Ukrainian mother

  

  For parents Jose Perez and Flavia Lavorino, the wait is finally over. On Wednesday, the couple from Buenos Aires met their baby son Manu for the first time, 71 days after he was born to a surrogate mother 12,875km away in Ukraine.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases.