MUSIC & ART Piano great Argerich scraps more concerts over illness 14-08-2023 12:20 Piano virtuoso Martha Argerich has cancelled further concerts in Austria and Germany in August due to illness.
MUSIC & ART Piano great Martha Argerich axes German, Swiss shows over illness 09-08-2023 12:41 Celebrated Buenos Aires-born pianist Martha Argerich cancels concerts in Germany and Switzerland due to illness.
MUSIC Argentine urban music conquers the world – Duki, Nicki Nicole, Bizarrap lead way 21-07-2023 15:31 Wave of Argentine musicians including Bizarrap, Duki, Emilia Mernes, Nicki Nicole and Wos are selling out shows and shining in the northern hemisphere.
ENVIRONMENT Celeste Saulo elected first female chief of World Meteorological Organization 01-06-2023 08:42 Celeste Saulo, who has headed Argentina's weather agency since 2014, elected as the first female leader of UN climate agency.
ENVIRONMENT Argentine in running to be UN weather agency's next chief 31-05-2023 10:13 The World Meteorological Organization, which plays a critical global role in tracking climate change, chooses a new leader this week to turbocharge that work over the next four years. UBA professor and the WMO's first vice-president Celeste Saulo is among the frontunners.
NAZI ACCOUNTS PROBE Credit Suisse accused of hindering probe into Nazi accounts 19-04-2023 10:13 Credit Suisse accused of impeding an investigation into its historical assistance to Nazis that had revealed a number of previously undisclosed accounts, including 99 allegedly linked to German officials or Nazi-affiliated groups in Argentina.
CRIME & THE COURTS Argentine charged with laundering in US$1.2-billion Venezuelan fraud case 13-07-2022 14:15 Swiss and Argentine citizens charged in Miami for allegedly helping launder part of US$1.2 billion taken from Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA in a long-running corruption and bribery investigation.
PRICES SURGE IN REGION Inflation a severe risk to Latin America's stability, warn analysts at Davos 24-05-2022 09:25 Inflation threatens the immediate future and political stability of Latin America, experts warn at event in Davos.
'Suisse Secrets' investigation Venezuelans accused of looting PDVSA held accounts at Credit Suisse 21-02-2022 15:31 More than 20 Venezuelans linked to corruption involving state energy firm PDVSA had "assets of more than US$273 million in 25 Credit Suisse accounts," a new investigation reveals.
'Suisse Secrets' investigation Investigation claims Credit Suisse bank handled dirty money 21-02-2022 15:01 Switzerland's second-largest bank Credit Suisse held billions of dollars of dirty money for decades, a new cross-border media investigation has claimed, based on a massive data leak from an anonymous source.
FOOD & WINE 2021 was record year for Argentine wine exports, says Foreign Ministry 23-01-2022 08:39 Argentina's bottled wine exports hit a historic high in 2021 worth US$817 million, according to Foreign Ministry.
BLOOMBERG Cannabis price drop creates opportunity for Paraguay 03-01-2022 12:36 As cannabis starts to behave more like an agricultural commodity, there’s a race to find the best growing climate at the lowest cost. In South America, a new candidate is emerging: Paraguay.