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Alberto Fernández eyes progress in Bali at G20 summit

14-11-2022 13:37 Russia-Ukraine talks and IMF surcharges on the agenda for the president, who will attend event hosted by US leader Joe Biden and hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Xi Jingping.

Republicans make gains in US midterms but no 'red wave'

09-11-2022 17:11 Disappointing night for Donald Trump, who was counting on a powerful Republican showing to boost his expected 2024 run to return to White House.

LGBTQ candidates make history in US midterm election

04-11-2022 00:19 A new report from the LGBTQ Victory Fund found that of the 1,065 LGBTQ hopefuls who ran primary campaigns for November's midterms, a historic 678 made it onto the ballot – an 18 percent increase over 2020.

Brazil's Lula finds quick welcome and likely ally in Biden

02-11-2022 15:28 Lula and Biden – both septuagenarian political veterans who returned to the ballot on avowed missions to save democracy – stand to form a close partnership on issues, starting with climate change.

Massa: imagination in power

03-09-2022 13:53 Trips and cuts: Argentina’s new Economy Minister sees his visit to the United States as a milestone of his stewardship.

by Roberto García

Bilateral meeting between Fernández and Biden set for September

19-08-2022 14:31 Argentina’s Ambassador in Washington Jorge Argüello talks up "good" relationship between the two presidents ahead of face-to-face meeting next month.

Anger, pain at vigil for migrants who died in tractor trailer in Texas

29-06-2022 14:13 Dozens of people held a vigil for the 51 migrants, who are thought to have come from Latin America, who died when they were abandoned in a suffocatingly hot tractor-trailer in Texas near the border with Mexico.

Biden faces uphill climb to restore US clout in Latin America

13-06-2022 14:20 US president has made a forceful pitch to reassert Washington's influence in Latin America, but the modesty of his promises will test his efforts at a time when China is making rapid inroads. 

US opposes dictators? Yes! Except when it supports them

07-06-2022 14:44 Dictators are bad, except, well, when they're kind of OK: welcome to the moral gymnastics that Joe Biden is only the latest US president to embrace in a complicated world.

Mexico boycott clouds Biden's regional Americas' summit

06-06-2022 14:47 Biden is expected to make announcements at the summit on economic cooperation and fighting Covid-19 and climate change, but attendance row ensures key regional summit begins under a cloud.

President to attend Summit of the Americas, secures bilateral with Biden

02-06-2022 12:06 President Alberto Fernández confirms to US government that he will travel to Los Angeles for key regional summit next week, despite reservations over exclusions.

After Uvalde, Biden vows to keep up pressure for gun regulation

30-05-2022 21:53 US President Joe Biden continues push for stricter gun regulation after the latest US mass shooting that left 21 people dead – an uphill battle given the Democrats' narrow congressional majority.

US seeks to bolster Latin American economies to curb migration

10-05-2022 09:56 Biden administration working on a proposal to bolster economies in Latin America and strengthen ties ahead of upcoming Summit of the Americas.

Biden calls for US voters to push back on 'radical' abortion draft ruling

03-05-2022 15:07 Joe Biden on Tuesday urged US voters to defend access to abortion, describing as “radical” a draft Supreme Court ruling that suggested the conservative-dominated high court was poised to shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections by striking down the nationwide right.

Putin declares war on Ukraine – what's behind the invasion?

24-02-2022 10:56 Russian President Vladimir Putin has sparked one of the biggest security crises in Europe since World War II by invading Ukraine.

'Unprovoked and unjustified': World reacts to attack on Ukraine

24-02-2022 09:15 World leaders on Thursday swiftly condemned Russia's military attack on Ukraine, with Western capitals vowing to escalate sanctions against Moscow while the head of the United Nations demanded the conflict end immediately.

Putin oversees missile drills as US steps up Ukraine invasion warnings

19-02-2022 08:25 President Vladimir Putin oversees drills involving nuclear-capable missiles, hours after the United States warned that it was now sure that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine within days.

An innocent abroad: Alberto in Russia and China

12-02-2022 09:32 Alberto’s willingness to kowtow to Xi and heap praise on the Chinese Communist regime was by no means as ridiculous as some seem to think, but he could hardly have chosen a worse time in which to cold-shoulder the United States.

by James Neilson

US inflation charges higher with larger-than-forecast gain

10-02-2022 11:41 Consumer prices in the United States surged in January by more than expected, sending the annual inflation rate to a fresh four-decade high.

US congressman: ‘Argentina has lashed itself to Chinese Communist Party’

08-02-2022 22:48 US lawmaker Matt Gaetz says “Argentina has lashed itself to the Chinese Communist Party” in the wake of last week's Belt and Road initiative announcement.