Given the significant fall in Argentina's inflation rate, the Central Bank (BCRA) announced Friday that it was lowering the basic interest rate from 40% to 35% in a move to "boost private credit."
According to a report from Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) released Thursday, unemployment in South America's largest country fell to 6.4 % in the third quarter of 2024 (from July to September), Agencia Brasil...
Argentine researchers found by chance what resulted to be the oldest tadpole fossil in the world. According to an article published this week, the fossil was found in the province of Santa Cruz and is believed to have lived in the Middle...
The US State Department Wednesday gave its nod to the possible sale of high-tech equipment for Argentina's F-16 combat aircraft. The US$ 941 million operation has the Fort Worth (Texas) based company Lockheed Martin as the primary...
Venezuela's Bolivarian regime Wednesday summoned its Ambassador in Brasilia to Caracas for consultations in repudiation of statements by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs advisor Celso Amorim, Agencia Brasil reported.
It will be business as usual for Argentines on Thursday after the bus drivers' Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA) lifted the strike following an understanding with the Labor Ministry and the companies represented by the Asociación...
Argentine President Javier Milei sacked Foreign Ministry Diana Mondino Wednesday after Argentina voted in line with most countries at the United Nations (UN) against the US trade embargo on Cuba in force since 1962. The 32nd consecutive...
Tadpole that wriggled around 160m years ago surpasses previous record holder by about 20m years Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160m years ago. The new fossil, found in...
Now that the Argentine president Javier Milei has made public a shopping list to equip the armed forces, such as the US manufactured F16 from Denmark for the Air Force, plus tanks, armored vehicles and modern warfare elements such as...
The Spanish Government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will be appointing Joaquín María de Arístegui Laborde as the new Ambassador to Buenos Aires, thus restoring the full strength of its diplomatic mission in the Argentine capital...
Argentina's state-run oil company YPF announced Tuesday that it plans to sell its shares in cooking gas distributor Metrogas to invest those funds in Vaca Muerta. YPF CEO Horacio Marín also outlined before the Inter-American Council of...
Argentina's leading public workers labor union Association of State Workers (ATE) launched at noon Tuesday a 36-hour strike to protest against the Libertarian administration of President Javier Milei's recent layoffs and spending...
The trial against Argentine Patagonian rancher Luis Alberto La Regina started this week in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut. He is prosecuted for the destruction of 175 nests, with an average of two eggs per nest,...
Brazil's Health Minister Nísia Trinidade Tuesday spoke in favor of creating a regional vaccine production coalition to avoid an encore of the setbacks experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. She made those remarks during a press...
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Monday accused Brazil's Foreign Ministry of being an agent at the service of the United States, which would explain his country not being admitted as an associate member of BRICS, unlike Cuba and Bolivia.
Brazil's government and businessmen gathered last week in São Paulo for the B20 summit, and they concurred on the need to push for world trade reforms ahead of the G20 summit, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro next month.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's candidate Guilherme Boulos failed to win Sunday's runoff to become Mayor of São Paulo, where Ricardo Nunes was reelected in perhaps the most relevant decision of the day, in which allies of...
An agro-technical boarding school is the subject of this striking documentary, which offers vignettes of growing pains and childlike wonder Eduardo Crespo’s sensitive documentary follows a cohort of boys at an Argentina agro-technical...
The case of Brazilian poet and composer António Cicero, who died through euthanasia last week in Switzerland, has rekindled the debate in South America's largest country on whether such a practice should be legalized, Agencia Brasil...
A total of 21 supporters of Uruguayan football club Peñarol were arrested this week in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro before a match with Botafogo and charged with racism, damage, and criminal association. “Nobody justifies...
While Cuba and Bolivia were accepted into the BRICS bloc as associate states, the Bolivarian regimen of President Nicolás Maduro blamed Brazil for Venezuela's exclusion.
Special investigation unit seized hard drives and camera footage on orders from the public prosecutor’s office Argentinian police have raided the Buenos Aires hotel where ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying last week...
Brazil's Ministry of Ports and Airports reported this week that South America's largest country recorded nearly 10 million airline travelers nationwide last month, which represented a 5.7% increase from September last year.
Prosecutors say ‘criminal enterprise’ charged foreign couples $50,000 and denied payments for miscarriages An international surrogacy ring exploited impoverished women, denied payments for miscarriages, and “commercialised” babies in...
An official in Argentina, where the boy band star died last week, has spoken anonymously ahead of the final toxicology results being released Explainer: What is pink cocaine? Former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple drugs...
Former partner of One Direction star spoke out as Payne’s father travelled to Buenos Aires to repatriate his body Liam Payne’s former partner Cheryl Tweedy has described media coverage of his death as “abhorrent”. The singer’s father,...
Bandmates will miss the singer, 31, who fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, ‘terribly’ Liam Payne autopsy shows star died of multiple injuries sustained in fall Liam Payne obituary Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates...
One Direction fans flock to the site where their idol fell to his death on Wednesday as hotel guests express confusion The street of the Casa Sur hotel in Buenos Aires, where the One Direction star Liam Payne fell to his death , was...
British musician was found dead after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires Liam Payne of One Direction – a life in pictures After One Direction, Liam Payne was just getting started. His death is a heartbreaking end...
Former One Direction member died after falling from hotel balcony in Argentina on Wednesday Liam Payne’s family and stars from across the music world have led tributes to the former One Direction star after his death at a hotel in...
The British boyband star and solo singer Liam Payne has died aged 31, after falling from a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, police in Argentina have confirmed. Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1993, Payne was just 16 years old...
This live blog is now closed, you can read our main report here Fans gather outside the Buenos Aires hotel to sing the band’s songs and light candles. US singer Charlie Puth , a co-writer on Payne’s 2017 song Bedroom Floor, said he was...
Liam Payne, a former member of the British boyband One Direction, was found dead outside the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires after falling from the third floor, Argentinian police have confirmed. The singer died on Wednesday 16 October at...
Hundreds of distraught fans gathered outside Palermo hotel to mourn a singer who was part of the soundtrack of their teenage years Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies aged 31 Liam Payne updates: tributes paid after singer dies...
Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’s call for Britain, having ceded the Chagos Islands, to abandon its imperial delusions In 2002 I was somewhat surprised to be asked to be an observer for the Gibraltar referendum that the then Labour...
Argentina’s president Javier Milei has become the latest dignitary to be rumbled borrowing from a Jed Bartlet speech. It wouldn’t happen here though … would it? Last week, Argentina’s president Javier Milei gave an address to a group of...
Stephen Doughty’s remarks come as Argentina vows to gain ‘full sovereignty’ of Falkland Islands The UK is “resolutely committed” to all of its overseas territories, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain...
Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the...
The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular 'ring of fire' eclipse. Only Easter Island and a small area near the southern tip of Chile and Argentina witnessed the...
Birds outnumber residents in Hilario Ascasubi, after deforestation leads them to seek food, shelter and water The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina ’s eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green, yellow and...