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It has also raised urgent questions over the environmental cost of Argentina's dependence on soya beans, its main export crop. .... The government reacted after the new water courses started threatening the outskirts of the city of Villa Mercedes and two major roads that carry much of the international ...

The government in Argentina has made a settlement offer to a group of oil and gas companies seeking payments for subsidies that the country uses to stimulate investment in unconventional gas plays. Representatives of state-controlled YPF, BP-controlled Pan American Energy (PAE), French giant Total ...

Falklands: Argentine families visit graves of previously unidentified soldiers ... A meeting with all parties: The British Government (HMG), the Government of Argentina (GOA), and the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) took place in Geneva on 9 December 2016 at the headquarters of the International Red ...

(RTTNews) - The Argentinean government announced a 32% average increase in nationwide natural gas prices, but that could reach up to 40%. The adjustment adds to the 45% increase applied by the government in December. According to the Argentinean Minister of Energy and Mining, Juan Jose ...

A tweet posted by Argentina's government office for human rights has been mocked online. The tweet reads: "Whatever your orientation, we're all part of the sexual diversity.#MakingVisible." It is followed by a picture with the motto: "Heterosexuality is part of sexual diversity." Many readers reacted with ...

In November 2017, the Argentine Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Sergio Bergman, declared at COP23 that “all (environmental) laws are valid and will not be changed (…) The information going around is just gossip: it does not come from the government, and there is no ground for ...

Argentina's Commerce Secretary Miguel Braun travelled to Washington to negotiate an exemption to the higher tariffs recently placed on steel and ... The Argentine government was quick to respond to Trump's decision to raise steel and aluminum tariffs which jump to 25 and 10 percent respectively.

The Argentine government has announced it plans to invest 15 billion Argentine Pesos (some US$ 750 million) in an ambitious expansion of the country's main international airport, Ezeiza, in the outskirts of Buenos Aires city. According to the Transport Ministry by 2021, a dramatic increase in air traffic ...

Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko speaks during a Feb. 20, 2018 House of Representatives Budget Committee meeting. (Mainichi). BRUSSELS (Kyodo) -- Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko said Saturday he has asked for Japan to be exempted from ...

(RTTNews) - The Argentinean government will request an exemption from new import duties on aluminum (10%) and steel (25%) adopted by the United States government. Currently, Argentina represents 2.3% and 0.6% of those imports, respectively. The new duties, which will take effect in 15 days, ...

The Argentine government signalled its intention to seek an exemption for its meagre exports in a statement earlier Friday. Argentina's exports to the US in the sectors are so small they have no effect on the market, the foreign ministry said in a statement. “Argentine exports represent only 0.6 per cent of steel ...

Distrito Sie7e, a nightclub in Rosario, Argentina, is at the heart of a rising leftist movement in northeastern Argentina. ... These decentralized bodies served to counteract the traditional concentration of power in the federal government to guarantee that the decisions being made represented the needs of ...

The Argentine government signalled its intention to seek an exemption for its meager exports in a statement earlier Friday. Argentina's exports to the US in the sectors are so small they have no effect on the market, the foreign ministry said in a statement. "Argentine exports represent only 0.6 percent of steel ...

The Argentine government estimates that there are between 370,000 and 522,000 clandestine abortions each year. Rights groups and the World Health Organization say the figure could be much higher. According to the bill, about a third of maternal deaths result from the clandestine procedures, Reuters ...

At the beginning of 2018 and as part of the Argentine government's fight to reduce bureaucracy and simplify administrative proceedings, the president issued Emergency Decree 27/2018 covering trademarks, patents and designs, as well as a series of other topics ranging from corporate issues to aviation, ...

This secret pact would have allowed senior Iranian officials involved in the attack to be investigated in their own country, rather than in Argentina. In December of 2015, after succeeding the Kirchner government, the government of then new Argentine President Mauricio Macri announced that it would not ...

Argentine Congress to debate legalising abortion. Meanwhile, Argentina's centre-right government has said it would consider holding a referendum on legalising abortion, a controversial issue in the largely Catholic nation. by Teresa Bo. 13 hours ago ...

But the financial guarantees provided by the government stand out as the most convincing arguments that Argentina's infrastructure sector is open to outside investors. The government has addressed foreign-exchange risks, for example, by making availability payments in US dollars, rather than Argentine ...

More than 70 Argentine members of Congress put forward a bill during a ceremony attended by dozens of activists. At the bill's presentation in Buenos Aires, opposition MP Aracelia Ferreyra said reform of the Argentine abortion law was "a topic of equality and inequality". In several Latin American countries ...

The Argentinian government has said that they prioritise attracting investment from abroad and have implemented many reforms to open this up. One thing Argentina has established is the Norwegian-Argentine Chamber of Commerce which is an independent organisation that has been working to promote ...

The man who was Argentina's president during the Amia Jewish centre car bombing – the country's worst terror attack – is facing jail time after being accused of ... A Jewish Argentine special prosecutor in charge of the investigation into Amia centre attack, Alberto Nisman, accused the Iranian government of ...

But he claimed they contained coffee, alcohol and gifts, and that the drugs were planted there later by the CIA, in an attempt to embarrass the Russian government. His lawyer claimed he occasionally delivered cognac, wine and cigars as a side business. Seven people have already been arrested in the ...

The Argentine press reported last year that Mr. Arribas had received close to $600,000 in connection with the scandal involving the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. The anti-corruption group Poder Ciudadano called on the government to remove him from office until the investigation was ...

That's the name given to a high-altitude region encompassing parts of Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia where some 80% of the planet's lithium production originates. The lithium is dissolved in vast underground reservoirs of brine. The liquid is pumped to the surface and held in giant pools, where sunlight ...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri was banking on a near-record soybean crop to drive economic growth of 3.5% this year and extend the nation's ... The government may need to trim its forecast for gross domestic product in 2018 if dryness persists this week, Guido Sandleris, the chief adviser at the ...

(CN) – The U.S. government wasn't purely motivated by foreign policy concerns when it lifted a ban on lemon imports from Argentina, a federal judge ruled late Tuesday. The U.S. Citrus Science Council and five growers sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Secretary Sonny Perdue this past May, ...

Argentine Gendarmerie commented on the photos attached to the case of smuggling 400 kg of cocaine from the South American republic in Russia. On the images, we recall, an IL-96 aircraft was depicted. According to its tail number, it belongs to the special flight detachment Russia in Buenos Aires.

Earlier, the Minister of National Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, stated that it was in December 2017 that the cocaine load was sent “as diplomatic baggage on a Russian government plane.” At the same time, the representative of the Russia squadron denied this information. It is to be recalled that the ...

The Argentine navy said it had passed system safety checks and President Mauricio Macri said it had been "in perfect condition". More than a dozen countries helped with the official search and 4,000 personnel were deployed. Earlier this month the Argentine government announced it would offer $4.9m ...

Argentina: Government, Media try to Suppress Workers, Activists Protest Against Austerity ... The various groups, including the General Confederation of Labor (3 million members) and the Argentine Workers' Central Union (1.5 million members) and the Association of State Workers (roughly 250,000 ...

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri on Friday backed his under-fire energy minister who admitted keeping his millions outside Argentina because he lacked faith in the economy. Macri said Juan Jose Aranguren had made financial sacrifices to take on the job of minister in his center-right government in ...

Was a Russian government jet used to smuggle cocaine from Argentina? ... Twelve suitcases and 389 kilograms of cocaine – “the purest in the world”; an organised crime ring; the local Russian embassy; a government plane and a special operation, conducted under the cover of darkness, switching drugs ...