Rebuffing clamour for candidacy, Fernández de Kirchner rules out election run
ENVIRONMENT
Kelp forests are crucial for battling climate change by capturing carbon, but more than half of the world's kelp forests have been decimated by human activity and climate change.
FIGHT AGAINST INFLATION
Argentina's Central Bank hiked its base interest rate Monday by six points to 97 percent, the first in a series of measures to tackle soaring inflation ahead of October's general election.
BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS
Global central banks tapped a record amount of the Chinese currency in foreign-exchange swap lines in the first quarter, in another indication of the yuan’s growing international status.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan defies pollsters and economic crisis to come within a fraction of a percentage point of winning Sunday's presidential ballot. Turkish president now in strong position to extend two decades of his Islamic-rooted rule by another five years.
Consumer prices rose 8.4% last month, reveals INDEC national statistics bureau; Inflation over the last year totals 108.8%, according to official data.
Argentina consumer prices in April rose 8.4% month on month, 108.8% year-on-year; Peso has lost 13% against the dollar in parallel markets in April.
Peronist governors in the provinces of Tierra del Fuego, La Pampa and Salta returned for new terms.
Six months after the death of the man widely considered the greatest footballer of all time, Brazil has opened Pelé's gilded, football-turfed tomb to the public.
Bielsa, who was sacked by Leeds United in February last year, will be presented to the media on Wednesday.
Argentine coach reportedly set to join Chelsea at the end of this season as he returns to the Premier League four years after his sacking by Tottenham Hotspur.
Latest Central Bank survey estimates a 7.5% jump in prices for last month and a 126.4% annual increase; Argentina suffered second-highlight jump in food costs over past year, according to World Bank.
Argentine sports marketing executive Alejandro Burzaco, who admitted paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to corrupt Latin American football officials, spared from prison after serving as star witness in FIFA-gate trial.
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Massa: IMF sees drought is ‘game-changer’ for Argentina
Government annuls award given to former French budget minister Maurice Papon, who was convicted in 1998 for crimes against humanity during the Second World War.
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW
A selection of the stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.
ELECTIONS 2023
Ex-Cabinet chief governor announces he will no longer run as lieutenant governor for northern province, with provincial Interior Minister Miguel Acevedo set to replace him as Osvaldo Jaldo’s running-mate.
POLITICS & JUDICIARY
Explosive reaction to ruling suspending gubernatorial elections in San Juan and Tucumán; President Alberto Fernández accuses justices of targeting Peronist candidates.
Preferred candidates for 2023 election talk up dialogue and air pro-market visions, with talk of alignment with Washington prompting sigh of relief from US business leaders
International Monetary Fund urges Democrats and Republicans to reach a consensus on the looming debt ceiling, warning of potential impact for the United States and the global economy if the nation defaults on its debt.
Chile’s government confirmed that private health insurance companies will have to pay about US$1.4 billion to abide by a 2022 Supreme Court ruling, confirming the worst-case scenario for an industry near collapse.
Led by conservative lawyer José Antonio Kast, an apologist for deceased military dictator Augusto Pinochet, Chile's Partido Republicano remains an enduring force.
EU Ambassador Amador Sánchez Rico leads Europe Day celebrations in Buenos Aires, highlighting shared values between European Union and Argentina.
Government data reveals that more than one million people in Argentina are living in “critically overcrowded” households.
Battle to prevent peso from facing a total meltdown is leaving the Central Bank, by some estimates, broke.
Two lithium-producing firms active in Argentina announce merger; Allkem and Livent, which operate in Catamarca and Jujuy, launch new US$10.6-billion firm.
Supreme Court suspends provincial elections in San Juan and Tucumán, just five days before voters are due to go to the ballot box.
A New York jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing and defaming an American former magazine columnist and ordered the ex-president to pay her $5 million in damages.
Txai Surui, and many young Indigenous activists, use technology instead of weapons to defend the Brazilian Amazon.
Although their government promised years ago to include the HPV vaccine in its free inoculation schedule, Venezuela remains one of the few Latin American countries not to have done so.
Illegal mines, pulling resources from protected lands in the Amazon, make around US$800 per metric ton of copper they sell on the black market, incentivising the risky trade.
International Monetary Fund spokesperson says talks with Argentina over a reformulation of its record credit programme amid historic drought are “progressing in a constructive manner.”
Lionel Messi will play in Saudi Arabia next season after signing a "huge" deal with the nation's Public Investment Fund, a source close to the negotiations claims.
