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Mon, 04 Jan 2021 05:15:00 GMT
Argentina's grain inspectors' union expect to reach a salary agreement this Monday
Argentina's grain inspectors' union, Urgara, said on the last day of 2020 that its members will continue to strike over the weekend after failing to strike a wage deal despite two meetings with the Chamber of Private and Commer...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:41:00 GMT
South Atlantic area of global contention? US Coast Guard off to South America to patrol for IUU fishing
The following piece by Gidget Fuentes in USNI News offers an account of the mission of USCGC (WMSL/758) Stone, fresh from Shipyard and Quarantine, and which departed Mississippi on 22 December for Southern Atlantic Patrol:

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:50:00 GMT
Argentina's regulator approves the AstraZeneca and Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine
Argentina's regulator on Wednesday approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for emergency use, AstraZeneca said in a statement.

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:30:00 GMT
Argentina suspends corn export sales until March; farmers' surprised and furious
Argentina will suspend sales of corn for export until Feb. 28, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, announcing the surprise move as part of the government's effort to ensure ample domestic food supplies.

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:10:00 GMT
Argentina approves bill to legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy
Argentina's Senate voted to legalize elective abortion early Wednesday, marking a historic political shift in the heavily Catholic country and larger region.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:39:00 GMT
Malvinas Veteran in tears after his Argentine military ID was sold on the UK eBay website
By Heather Briley for MercoPress LONDON, UK – Almost forty years after the Falklands conflict the identity document of an Argentine soldier has been sold on the UK eBay website. It belongs to the director of the Malvinas Mus...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:26:00 GMT
Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine on Tuesday
Argentina will begin vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus on Tuesday using the recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the government said on Saturday, following its approval by health authorities for emergency us...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:15:00 GMT
Argentine Senate debates abortion bill on Tuesday; tight vote but with good chances of passing
The Argentine Senate will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legalize abortion. The proposed legislation would allow women to terminate pregnancie...

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 08:30:00 GMT
Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week
Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main brea...

Thu, 24 Dec 2020 08:50:00 GMT
Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses expected on Thursday
Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine "emergency" authorization, making the country the first in Latin America to do so. The first shipment of the tot...



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