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Argentine trucker protest slashes grains delivery, threatening exports and milling
Jun 30, 2022 11:21A truck driver protest in Argentina is threatening to paralyze the country's grains exports, slashing the number of freight vehicles carrying grains to the country's main port on Wednesday.
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Argentinian officials seize passports of Iranian crew of grounded Venezuelan plane
Jun 14, 2022 09:51Argentinian officials have seized the passports of five Iranian crew members of a Venezuelan cargo plane grounded in the South American country last week, pending a probe into their purported affiliation to Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
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Firefighters battle forest blaze in nine provinces of Argentina
Jan 15, 2022 06:25With temperatures climbing upwards, firefighters were deployed ahead of the weekend to forest fires in nine of Argentina's 23 provinces, including one blaze that has been active for more than a month.
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Argentina lashes out at UK over planned military exercises in Malvinas Islands
Apr 14, 2021 10:44Argentina has lashed out at Britain over its plan to hold military exercises and missile tests in the occupied Malvinas Islands, which the British call Falkland Islands, saying they are part of a "pattern" of "hostile acts" and an "unjustified show of force."
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Latin America’s pandemic of mounting troubles
Jan 03, 2021 10:34Many regions performed badly when confronted with COVID-19, but Latin America fared worse than most, in terms of both lives and livelihoods lost. As of November 2020, nine of the 20 countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per capita were in Latin America.
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Maradona buried as Argentina pays last respects to football legend
Nov 28, 2020 06:12Argentine football icon Diego Armando Maradona was laid to rest in a cemetery outside the country's capital Buenos Aires, where his parents are buried.
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Football world mourns death of Diego Maradona
Nov 26, 2020 08:13Diego Armando Maradona, widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, died at the age of 60 due to a heart attack.
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Presidents of Argentina, Venezuela join the protest for decrying Assange’s prosecution
Sep 21, 2020 10:57The presidents of Venezuela and Argentina have joined a growing chorus of voices calling for an end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently fighting extradition to the United States at a British court.
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Occupied Malvinas Islands facing major public health crisis
Apr 15, 2020 07:39The coronavirus outbreak on the British-occupied Malvinas Islands (which the UK calls Falkland Islands) has considerably worsened following six new confirmed infections, bringing the territory’s total to 11.
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Myanmar pays rising price for Rohingya crisis
Mar 04, 2020 14:24Recently, the government of Myanmar started paying a real price for its failure to provide meaningful accountability for its security forces’ widespread and systematic violence against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority in Northern Rakhine State in late 2017.