Newcastle Falcons’ Juan Pablo Socino is not bitter about the fact Argentina’s new approach to international rugby means he cannot play for his country for the next three seasons. The 27-year-old made his debut for the Pumas in their non-cap game against the French Barbarians in July, having shone in his first season for the Falcons. The former Rotherham centre went on to appear in their Rugby Championship test matches with Australia and South Africa prior to the Rugby World Cup, winning a further Read more [...]

Argentina is in a position to both return to growth this year and narrow the widest deficit in more than three decades as President Mauricio Macri reinserts the nation back into the global economy, his Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said.After lifting currency controls and trade barriers within the first month of taking office Dec. 10, Argentina’s economy may expand as much as 3 percent in the second half of 2016 from a year earlier with an expected growth rate of between 0.5 percent and 1 Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina decreed measures on Tuesday designed to help fight drug trafficking, vowing to crack down on smugglers using the country as a transshipment point for Bolivian and Peruvian cocaine destined for the lucrative markets of Europe.Declaring a nationwide public security emergency, the country's new president said the army would be allowed to "identify, warn, intimidate and use force" against drug flights."The resolution includes strong control of air space," said a statement Read more [...]

Two words can have a lot of meaning in sports.Those two words would be World Cup, particularly when the “W” and “C” are capitalized.The United States just added a World Cup title to its sports achievements but hardly anybody knows about that feat.The title came in FootGolf — a hybrid sport that is a combination of soccer and golf — during the once-every-four-years event that ended in mid-January just outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Twenty-six countries and 230 players competed, and Read more [...]

While security experts in Argentina have expressed their concern over the “Mexicanization” of the country due to a steadily increasing rate of violence linked to organized crime, the government this Read more [...]

BUENOS AIRES Jan 19 Argentina will seek to issue up to $5 billion worth of dollar-denominated, local law Bonar 2020 bonds in one or several auctions, the government said in its gazette on Tuesday.The South American country had already said it would issue $1 billion of the Bonar 2020 notes, that have an 8 percent coupon, on Jan. 20. In the light of this announcement, it could increase the amount it issues on Wednesday. The government also said it would offer holders of dollar-denominated Read more [...]

Even after a month after heavy rains caused by El Niño hit South America, about 4,000 people remain stranded in shelter homes due to the terrible flooding in Argentina. According to Latino Fox News, part of the eastern provinces of Argentina like Entre Rios and Santa Fe remain in a disastrous state because of the overflowing of the rivers, according to authorities. In Sante Fe alone, about 1,720 people are currently living in temporary shelters. On the other hand, the province of Santa Fe has Read more [...]

On 7 January, uniQure N.V. (NASDAQ:QURE), announced preliminary topline results from the low-dose cohort of an ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial being conducted in adult hemophilia B patients treated with uniQure’s novel AAV5/FIX gene therapy, AMT-060. All five patients in the low-dose cohort had Factor IX (FIX) phenotypic features of severe or moderately-severe hemophilia including documented Factor IX (FIX) levels less than 1-2% and required chronic treatment with prophylactic recombinant Read more [...]

Home » Argentina to Issue Higher Denomination Banknotes By Central Bank of Argentina…. The Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) reports that in mid-2016 it will put into circulation banknotes of higher denomination, specifically 200- and 500-peso notes, with the 1,000-peso note to follow next year. New sets of 20, 50 and 100 pesos will also start circulating in 2017. The new bills will circulate alongside existing currency for the time being. The addition of larger denomination paper money is Read more [...]

The new Argentinian president, Mauricio Macri, will meet David Cameron at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week in a warming of ties that have long been chilled by a dispute over the Falkland Islands. The one-on-one talks, which were confirmed to the Guardian by a senior aide on the eve of Macri’s flight to Europe, underscore a softening of rhetoric over the islands following last month’s change of government in Buenos Aires. Cameron and Macri’s predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Read more [...]