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Taking sides in the new cold war

Today 00:35 Joe Biden wants his country to lead a coalition of the willing to help him wage what, he hopes, will remain a cold war against China, Russia and other autocracies.

by James Neilson

President Alberto Fernández and Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof watch a member of the public be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Coronavirus pandemic

More than half of population now vaccinated with one dose

Yesterdat 23:48 More than half of Argentina’s population has now been vaccinated against Covid-19, but the landmark was this week overshadowed by concerns over a lack of supply of Sputnik V vaccine shots.

Mauricio Pochettino takes a PSG training session.

FRENCH FOOTBALL

Pochettino pens new PSG deal despite tricky start to reign

Yesterdat 16:01 Argentine coach pens a one-year extension to his contract to stay with the French giants until 2023 despite a below-par start to his reign.

Protests in Cuba

US sanctions Cuba for repressing protests, Biden warns more to come

Yesterdat 02:58 US President Joe Biden warns sanctions on Cuba's defence minister and a special forces unit are "just the beginning" of punitive measures against Havana.

Healthcare professionals wait to perform Covid-19 tests on arriving travellers at Ezeiza International Airport.

Coronavirus pandemic

Health Ministry: Argentina has recorded 29 cases of Delta variant to date

22-07-2021 22:54 All but one of the 29 individuals who have tested positive for the Delta variant of Covid-19 on national soil had a recent history of international travel. The other case is someone with an "epidemiological link to a traveller," according to officials.

Health Minister Carla Vizzotti and Presidential advisor Cecilia Nicolini.

Covid-19 vaccines

Government complains to Russia over Sputnik vaccine delivery delays

22-07-2021 16:29 Argentina complains to Russia about delays in delivering second doses of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in a letter warning of breach of contract repercussions.

In this file photo taken on April 15, 2021, a health worker shows vials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, at a vaccination centre at the Tecnopolis park in Villa Martelli, Buenos Aires Province.

Bloomberg

Argentina chides Russia as vaccine delays hurt government

22-07-2021 16:04 Argentina's government complains to Russia over delays in delivering its Sputnik V vaccine, saying the lack of supplies has left country in a “very critical situation.”

The Salinas Grandes salt pan in the Andes Mountains.

Bloomberg

Toyota-Panasonic battery venture slashes costs to take on China

21-07-2021 14:53 Materials alone make up 60 percent of the cost of an EV battery and about half of that comes from resources like lithium and cobalt. Finding ways to reduce those expenses is proving increasingly important as surging demand for electric vehicles sends raw materials prices soaring.

Marcos Galperín, co-founder and chief executive officer of MercadoLibre Inc., smiles during an interview in Buenos Aires.

Bloomberg

MercadoLibre, BigCommerce ally to boost US sales to Latin America

21-07-2021 10:46 MercadoLibre partners with Texas-based BigCommerce Holdings to give the online-shopping software-maker’s web merchants access to a new region.

Sergio Chodos, Executive Director for the Southern Cone at the IMF.

INTERVIEW

Sergio Chodos: ‘The fundamental thing is to get out of excessive debt’

20-07-2021 17:03 IMF Executive Director of the Southern Cone was a key member of the committee accompanying Economy Minister Martín Guzmán at the recent G20 summit. “The meeting with Janet Yellen was very good,” he reveals, regarding the US Treasury Secretary.

by Leandro Dario

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, pose for a picture after an interview with AFP at the Hilton Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 19, 2021.

Nuclear tensions

Pause in Iran nuclear talks 'uncomfortable,' says IAEA chief Grossi

20-07-2021 11:45 Stalling of negotiations on Iranian nuclear programme until a new government takes office in Tehran puts the teams of inspectors in an "uncomfortable situation," IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2016, an Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.

spyware scandal

Reports: Private Israeli malware Pegasus used to spy on journalists, activists

19-07-2021 11:46 Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using mobile phone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, reports said over the weekend.

On Cuba, Joe Biden said his administration is checking whether it can resume Internet service restricted by the regime, but he didn’t offer a more expansive plan to respond to some of the biggest street protests in years.

GEOPOLITICS

Latin America turmoil intrudes in Biden’s focus on China, Europe

19-07-2021 11:29 US President Joe Biden says his foreign policy focus is on China and frayed alliances in Asia and Europe. But his administration is finding it harder to avoid getting pulled into Latin America’s problems.

Pedestrians walk along Watling Street, on so-called 'Freedom Day', in the City of London, England, on Monday, July 19, 2021.

'FREEDOM DAY' IN ENGLAND

England lifts Covid curbs as scientists warn of surge in cases

19-07-2021 11:21 British government lifts pandemic restrictions on daily life in England, scrapping all social distancing rules in a step slammed by scientists and opposition parties as a dangerous leap into the unknown.

Officials from AMIA and families of the victims of the terror attack, 27 years ago, hold an online commemorative event to reiterate their call for justice. Usual celebrations were put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

AMIA BOMBING: 27 YEARS ON

Families reiterate call for justice on 27th anniversary of AMIA bombing

18-07-2021 15:38 Families of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre renewed their demands for justice Sunday as they marked the 27th anniversary of the horror attack.

opinion and analysis

Geopolitics and the ideological populism of Macri and Cristina

17-07-2021 11:23 Beginning to leave the Macri-Cristina grieta in the rearview mirror is a necessary condition for progress.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Covid-19 vaccines

United States donates 3.5 million Moderna vaccines to Argentina

17-07-2021 00:01 United States confirms donation of 3.5 million Moderna vaccines to Argentina, with first shipment expected to arrive on Saturday.

Vice-President and Senate president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner addresses the court during a hearing on the Iran-Memorandum of Understanding case on July 16, 2021.

COURTS

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demands dismissal of Iran MoU case

16-07-2021 23:51 Vice-President calls for trial against her on charges of covering up the involvement of Iranian leaders in the 1994 bomb destruction of the AMIA Jewish community centre to be quashed, branding it "a judicial and political scandal."

A demonstrator is arrested in Cuba in July 2021.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Cuba protests fanned by worst economic crisis since fall of USSR

16-07-2021 03:00 Cuba's deepest economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a spike in Covid-19 infections, power blackouts and increased use of social media all helped fan discontent with the 62-year-old communist regime.

Passengers wearing face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus arrive at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Foreign tourist numbers down 90% in first five months of year

16-07-2021 00:42 Barely 6,800 tourists entered the country in May, while there were 30,000 residents travelling in the opposite direction.

Lionel Messi waves to reporters as he leaves his home and heads to training.

FOOTBALL

Reports: Barcelona, Messi reach 'agreement in principle' over new contract

14-07-2021 12:46 Spanish media outlets report Argentina national team captain has agreed terms over new contract that will see his salary halved and spend five more years at the Camp Nou.

Citigroup Inc plans to exit Venezuela by selling its remaining business there, ending more than a century of operating in the South American country.

LATIN AMERICA

Citigroup to exit Venezuela after more than a century of operations

14-07-2021 09:51 Citigroup plans to exit Venezuela by selling its remaining business there, ending more than a century of operating in the South American country.

Looters take away items from a vandalised mall in Vosloorus, on July 14, 2021. The raging unrest first erupted last Friday after former president Jacob Zuma started serving a 15-month term for contempt, having snubbed a probe into the corruption that stained his nine years in power.

IN FOCUS

Death toll in South Africa unrest climbs to 72 as violence spreads

14-07-2021 09:42 Stores and warehouses in South Africa hit by looters for a fifth day running, despite deployment of troops by President Cyril Ramaphosa to quell unrest that has claimed 72 lives.

A car with darkened windows transporting Pope Francis leaves the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on July 14, 2021 in Rome, where the Pope was recovering after being hospitalized following a colon surgery on July 4.

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Pope Francis leaves hospital after operation

14-07-2021 09:16 Pope Francis on Wednesday left the Rome hospital where the 84-year-old pontiff underwent an operation on his colon on July 4.

DIPLOMACY

Fernández criticises 'inhumane' trade embargo against Cuba

13-07-2021 16:37 President Alberto Fernández delivers his first comments on protests in Cuba. “I don't know what is happening, but let’s end the blockade,” he says.

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass for the Philippine community of Rome, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to Sunday, December 15, 2019

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Vatican: Pope to return home 'as soon as possible'

13-07-2021 12:52 Pope Francis continues to recover and will return home "as soon as possible" from hospital following surgery on his colon, according to Holy See.

FOOTBALL

Argentina draw 2-2 with South Korea in Olympics prep match

13-07-2021 12:31 Argentina held by the South Korean Olympic football squad 2-2 on Tuesday after losing a lead to a dramatic injury-time equaliser.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro sprays disinfectant over journalists’ microphones after one tested positive for Covid-19, during a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, on December 8, 2020.

Crisis in Venezuela

Venezuela's Maduro says Mexico to host talks with opposition

13-07-2021 09:35 Venezuelan leader says Mexico will host talks between his government and the opposition, but insists he will only take part if international sanctions are lifted. Little comment on latest arrest of another opposition leader, Freddy Guevara.

People take part in a demonstration to support the government of the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests Sunday against the communist government, marching through a town chanting "Down with the dictatorship" and "We want liberty."

UNREST IN CUBA

Cuba blames US for unprecedented anti-government protests

12-07-2021 15:19 Thousands of Cubans take part in demonstrations across country, chanting: "Down with the dictatorship," as President Miguel Diaz-Canel urges supporters to confront demonstrators.

Covid-19 vaccines

Government signs agreement with Moderna for 20 million Covid vaccines

12-07-2021 15:02 Health Ministry confirms Argentina has signed an agreement with US laboratory Moderna to purchase 20 million vaccine doses. Shots set to arrive in first quarter of 2022.

Self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela and opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks during a press conference in Caracas, Venezuela.

Venezuelan Crisis

Guaidó responds to Alberto Fernández: 'Human beings are disappearing in Venezuela'

11-07-2021 17:27 Venezuelan opposition leader challenges previous statements by the Argentina's president, but suggests Fernández administration "can be a bridge" in efforts to resolve the crisis.

Copa América

Delighted Di María reveals what Messi told him before the Copa América final

11-07-2021 11:57 Argentina's winning goalscorer reflects on famous Copa América title win against Brazil in the Maracanã.

Economy Minister Martín Guzmán meets with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

IMF DEBT TALKS

Guzmán discusses IMF debt With US Treasury Secretary Yellen during G20 meeting

10-07-2021 18:53 Economy Minister Martín Guzmán says he had a “valuable” discussion about IMF debt with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

BIG TECH

Is Facebook a monopoly? A few ideas to help the FTC out…

10-07-2021 08:20 For anyone operating in the same digital ecosystem as Facebook, it is painstakingly clear that Zuckerberg’s creation has excessive market power and uses it to its own benefit. The same can be said about Google and a few other Silicon Valley giants.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

As I see it

Let the rest of the world stew in its own juice

09-07-2021 22:22 The United States decided to retreat from Afghanistan after both Trump and his followers and Biden and his asked themselves: what is in it for us? The answer they gave themselves was: nothing much.

by James Neilson

Italy captain Giorgio Chiellini and England captain Harry Kane.

EURO 2020 FINAL

England dare to dream ahead of Euro 2020 final against impressive Italy

09-07-2021 21:58 Sunday's match will be the culmination of a remarkable turnaround in Italian fortunes since Roberto Mancini took over as coach.

Passengers of regular flights arrive at Ezeiza airport on March 17, 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic

Government retains 600-person cap on travellers

09-07-2021 17:24 The government is set to decree the same restrictions against the coronavirus pandemic in order to keep its Delta variant at bay, including a daily entry cap of 600 Argentines coming from abroad.

Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero, pictured taking questions in the lower house Chamber of Deputies.

Covid-19 vaccines

Cafiero: Government to sign vaccine deal with Moderna on Monday

08-07-2021 18:23 Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero says talks are ongoing with Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson over the supply of additional vaccines.

Copa América

Bangladesh on alert for Brazil, Argentina Copa América clash

08-07-2021 17:30 Police in a rural Bangladesh district have banned gatherings for Sunday's Copa América final between Brazil and Argentina following clashes between rival fans.

Mauricio Macri and Pablo Casado, the leader of Spain's conservative PP party.

Former president

Macri claims Argentina is witnessing biggest exodus in its history

08-07-2021 15:37 Former president attacks Alberto Fernández's government during event in Spain, saying it will be "the last populist government" in Argentina’s history.

Trader Gregory Rowe, left, and specialist Peter Giacchi work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Stock Market

US stocks fall amid worries over growth, Delta strain

08-07-2021 11:53 Wall Street stocks tumbled, threatening global growth due to bond yields and increasing prevalence of the Covid-19 Delta variant.

Startups

Venture capital surge delivers record for 'unicorn births'

08-07-2021 11:41 According to a report by US-based firms, startups globally raised $156 billion between April and June, the highest level in a decade for the second quarter.

A man with Covid-19 receives treatment at a hospital in Buenos Aires Province.

Global pandemic

WHO: World passes 'tragic milestone' of four million Covid deaths

07-07-2021 15:46 The world passed the "tragic milestone" of four million recorded Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, the World Health Organization said, adding that the pandemic's true toll was probably higher.

Coalition of political parties in Venezuela led by Juan Guaidó (pictured) says it won't participate in upcoming congressional elections called by officials loyal to President Nicolás Maduro.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Biden reaffirms support for Venezuela opposition leader Guaidó

06-07-2021 15:27 Joe Biden reaffirms US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, even in the midst of efforts to resume negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro's government.

Handout picture released by the Venezuelan presidency showing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (centre), speaking during a military parade to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the Venezuelan Independence in Caracas, on July 5, 2021.

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela's Maduro blows hot and cold in bid for sanctions relief

06-07-2021 15:19 Embattled Venezuelan leader is hoping such assurances on upcoming elections will lead to a softening of the economic sanctions hanging over the country.

In this file photo taken on November 2, 2019 a reveller holds a rainbow flag during the Gay Pride Parade outside the Congress building in Buenos Aires. Government positions will be reserved for transvestites, transsexuals and transgenders, according to a decree issued on September 4, 2020.

Human Rights

Argentina and the UK host virtual conference in name of LGBT+ rights

06-07-2021 12:12 Argentina and the UK to host a virtual conference of the Equal Rights Coalition, as co-chairs of the intergovernmental body dedicated to the protection of the rights of LGBTI people across the globe.

CAF Development Bank

Colombian to lead regional development bank after divisions

06-07-2021 10:04 Colombia’s Sergio Díaz Granados defeats Argentina’s Christian Asinelli to become the next head of CAF Development Bank of Latin America, after a heated selection process that laid bare the region’s deep ideological divide.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives an update on relaxing restrictions imposed on the country during the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic at a virtual press conference inside the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on July 5, 2021.

Global pandemic

England set to lift mask, distancing rules as cases soar

05-07-2021 14:46 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday unveiled a plan to lift most of England's pandemic restrictions from July 19, as he urged the public to "learn to live with" the coronavirus.

This handout picture taken and released by the Vatican Media on July 4, 2021 shows Pope Francis delivering the Sunday Angelus prayer from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Chicken walk and mate: Pope Francis' health, from colon to sciatica

05-07-2021 10:57 Pope Francis was doing well on Monday after surgery for an inflamed large colon, but the 84-year-old was expected to spend around seven days recovering in hospital, the Vatican said. A look at the Argentine pontiff's other health problems.

The rest of the Champlain South tower is seen being demolished in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach, late on July 4, 2021.

MIAMI CONDO COLLAPSE

Rest of collapsed Florida apartment block demolished ahead of tropical storm

05-07-2021 08:47 Controlled explosion brings down unstable remains of collapsed apartment block in Florida ahead of a threatening tropical storm, with the confirmed death toll at 24 and 121 people missing.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing from his studio's window overlooking Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican, during the Sunday Angelus prayer on May 2, 2021.

ARGENTINE PONTIFF

Pope Francis undergoes colon operation, confirms Vatican

04-07-2021 20:55 Pontiff admitted to Rome's Gemelli University Hospital "for a scheduled surgery for symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon," informs Vatican statement.

A general view of the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on July 03, 2021 in Surfside, Florida.

Miami Collapse

Florida collapse toll now 24, rest of building to be razed soon

03-07-2021 22:03 Searchers recovered two more bodies to bring the death toll in the Florida apartment block collapse to 24, as demolition crews could prepare to bring down the part of the building still standing.

15% AGREED

Global tax overhaul nears historic deal amid last-minute hurdles

03-07-2021 13:31 Deal is a victory for the Joe Biden administration and its global allies, although it still faces multiple significant obstacles to completing an ambitious plan that has been years in the making.

President Alberto Fernández announces an extension of Covid-19 measures.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Argentina signs degree to change rule to ramp vaccine access

03-07-2021 13:20 Argentina changes vaccine regulations to speed access to a wider range of vaccines, as the Joe Biden administration steps up donations.

Coronavirus pandemic

Opposition demands roll-back of daily cap on arriving travellers

02-07-2021 23:57 As many as 40,000 citizens and residents are overseas, according to migration officials, who say 60% of those who travelled last month did so for tourism.

Legal & Technical Secretary Vilmar Ibarra.

Coronavirus vaccines

President Fernández signs decree to speed up access to vaccines

02-07-2021 23:48 Presidential decree modifies Vaccine Law, passed by Congress last November, and paves way for arrival of vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson

Patients wait in line beneath Venezuelan and Cuban flags to receive the Cuban Abdala Covid-19 vaccine in the Ciudad Tiuna neighbourhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday, July 1, 2021. Venezuela expects to receive 12 million doses of Abdala, which is said by Cuban authorities to be 92 percent effective.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Venezuela deploys Cuban vaccines as WHO urges caution

02-07-2021 14:07 Venezuela is the first country outside of Cuba to include the Abdala vaccine in it’s national programme. It’s done so under heavy criticism from local medical associations and NGOs.

An employee wearing a protective mask takes the temperature of a pregnant shopper waiting to enter a store in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, June 10, 2020.

Global pandemic

In Latin America, Covid-19 hits pregnant women hard

02-07-2021 00:41 Alarm bells rang in Uruguay when eight pregnant women died from the coronavirus in the space of five weeks time — a new reality observed recently across Latin America.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) speaks to media flanked by Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann upon his arrival at the OECD headquarters in Paris, on June 25, 2021.

G20 SUMMIT

Historic global tax deal backed by 130 nations

01-07-2021 23:08 A total of 130 countries, including Argentina, agree global reform to ensure multinationals pay at least 15% tax wherever they operate. Move could add some US$150 billion to government coffers worldwide.

world

UN confirms 18.3 degrees Celsius record heat in Antarctica

01-07-2021 14:33 Record heat was reached at Argentina's Esperanza research station on the Antarctic Peninsula on February 6, 2020.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (on screen) delivers a speech during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on July 1, 2021.

CCP CENTENARY

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China at 100th birthday of Communist Party

01-07-2021 11:28 In the summer of 1921 Mao and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai founded the Communist Party, which has since morphed into one of the world's most powerful political organisations. It now counts around 95 million members, garnered over a century of war, famine and turmoil, and more recently a surge to superpower status butting up against Western rivals, led by the United States.

Customers shop for meat at a grocery store in Brasilia, Brazil.

BLOOMBERG

Peak meat? High prices and plant-based trends threaten demand

01-07-2021 08:32 Demand for meat is waning across the globe in what could signal the start of a new broad shift away from animal protein.

Syringes filled with the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine are pictured at the vaccination center of CHEMPARK operator CURRENTA in Leverkusen, western Germany, on June 22, 2021.

Covid-19 Vaccine

Germany's CureVac Covid vaccine just 48% effective

30-06-2021 19:01 Final trial results showed the coronavirus vaccine had an efficacy rate of just 48%, far lower than those developed by mRNA rivals BioNTech and Moderna. The outcome had been expected after poor interim results were released earlier this month.

In this file photo solar lights and flags now mark the spots where 751 human remains were recently discovered in unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan on June 27, 2021.

Indigenous Rights

Nearly 200 more unmarked graves found at Canada indigenous school

30-06-2021 18:48 Another 182 unmarked graves were discovered at a third former indigenous residential school in Canada as two Catholic Churches went up in flames on Wednesday.

A man drinks from a fountain at Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 2021, as a heat wave threatens to make it Baltimore’s hottest day of the year.

Climate Change

Deadly heat wave slams Canada, United States

30-06-2021 18:29 Millions in western Canada and the northwestern United States were under heat alerts this week as the region experienced record-breaking temperatures — police reported dozens of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions.

President Alberto Fernández visits a Laboratorios Richmond plant. To the left, CEO Marcelo Figueras watches on.

COVID-19 VACCINES

Laboratorios Richmond set to begin manufacturing Sputnik V second doses

30-06-2021 17:17 President of the Laboratorios Richmond pharmaceutical firm, Marcelo Figueiras, confirms that local production of the second dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will start next Monday.

In this file photo taken on December 15, 2006, outgoing US decretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld (left) is joined by then-US president George W. Bush (centre) and then-US vice president Dick Cheney (right) during an Armed Forces Full Honor Review in Honor of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

world

Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld dead at 88

30-06-2021 17:06 Donald Rumsfeld, the cocksure and unrepentant defence secretary who led the United States into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 88.

earch and Rescue teams look for possible survivors and to recover remains in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 30, 2021 in Surfside, Florida.

MIAMI CONDO COLLAPSE

Death toll rises to 16 in Miami condo collapse

30-06-2021 16:56 At least 29 other Latin Americans still missing, with no news to date: nine from Argentina, six from Colombia, six from Paraguay, four from Venezuela, three from Uruguay and one from Chile.

Eduardo Eurnekian, owner of Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 SA and chairman of Corporación América, speaks during an interview in New York in 2014.

Bloomberg

Billionaire Eurnekian’s CGC buys Sinopec assets in Argentina

30-06-2021 15:22 CGC, majority owned by billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian’s Corporación América International, closes deal for the local unit of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp on Wednesday, the Buenos Aires-based company confirms in a statement.

A woman walks past the Basilica of Santo Stefano, in Bologna, Italy, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The Italian government had extended a coronavirus containment order previously limited to the country’s north to the rest of the country beginning Tuesday, with soldiers and police enforcing bans.

Human Rights

Italian prison guards filmed beating inmates after protest

30-06-2021 14:05 Graphic video images surfaced Wednesday of dozens of Italian prison guards beating unarmed inmates with truncheons and fists after a coronavirus-related protest last year.