15/02/2012 | Argentina

CFK to make official visit to Chile's Piñera

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will make an official visit to Chile next month, amidst a power struggle in which both Argentina and the UK aim to gather support from the International community in the Malvinas Islands controversy.

26/05/2012 | Argentina

Cabinet Chief Medina to give first speech at Senate

Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina will pay a visit to the Senate on Wednesday next week, in order to report on President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s administration.

26/05/2012 | Argentina

Vice-President Amado Boudou arrives in Bolivia

Vice-President Amado Boudou arrived in Bolivia on Saturday, where on Sunday he is to participate in the bicentenary celebrations commemorating the ‘Heroines of the Crown,’ women who fought against the Spanish colonialists on San Sebastián hill in Cochabamba.

14/09/2011 | Argentina

CFK: 'Argentina is a model of what a State that respects institutions should be'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner attended the ceremony where the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo received the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, a prize granted by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), and received by her leader, Estela de Carlotto. 

01/11/2011 | Argentina

CFK deems Ricchieri highway roadblock 'ridiculous ploy'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner blasted UATRE farm hands union protesters who set a roadblock in the Ricchieri highway today. "It wasn't social protest, but a ridiculous ploy," she said, before boarding the Tango 01 presidential plane en route to France, where she's due to attend the G20 Summit.

03/11/2011 | Argentina

G20: CFK says 'financial capitalism anarchy' should end

During the G20 meeting in Cannes, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called today for world leaders to put a stop to the current “anarchistic economic capitalism” and regulate the markets, not the countries, to go back to what she referred to as “real capitalism” after three years of world economic crisis.

04/06/2011 | Argentina

CFK returns to BA after 3-day Italian visit

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returned to Buenos Aires after spending three days in Italy on an official visit that included various meetings with other heads of State, and participation in Italy’s Unification celebrations in Rome. The President arrived to the Military Base at Jorge Newbery Metropolitan airport at 8.03AM.

13/06/2011 | Argentina

Ban Ki-Moon says ESMA visit 'one of the saddest, most moving days of his life'

In the first day of his official visit to Buenos Aires, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited the ESMA Navy School of Mechanics, which functioned as a detention centre during the last dictatorship. "This has been one of the saddest and most moving experiences in my life," he said.

08/09/2011 | Argentina

'Argentina and China are building a strategic relationship,' Timerman

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman stated today Argentina and China “are building a strategic relationship,” highlighting “positive investment activity” within bilateral connections, as he was heading a dinner with powerful Chinese executives, during his first activity on his China visit.  

28/05/2011 | Argentina

CFK flies to Mexico, will meet with Calderón

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner flies to Mexico to begin an official two-day visit to the country, where she will be meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, as well as conducting other activities.

01/06/2011 | Argentina

'Argentina plays a crucial part in today’s world,' Italian President Napolitano says

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed how “Argentina plays a crucial part in today’s world,” during a meeting with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner this morning at the Quirinale Palace, government officials informed.

02/06/2011 | Argentina

Clinton meets with politicians and businessmen in Puerto Madero

Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Buenos Aires to take part in a meeting with governors, politicians and business leaders at the Faena Hotel in Puerto Madero

03/04/2011 | Argentina

'Argentina and Israel share an unbreakable bond,' Timerman

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said that “Argentina and Israel are two countries that are friends with each other, who cooperate between them and hold an unbreakable bond,” before he is due to start an official visit to that country.

04/05/2011 | Argentina

CFK meets UIA leadership

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner met with the leaders of the Argentina Industrial Union (UIA) to continue with the “social dialogue.” The head of the union, José Ignacio de Mendiguren, said that the Head of State “insisted on how to solve the litigations.”

12/05/2011 | Argentina

China to purchase 500,000 tons of soy bean oil from Argentina

After meeting with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the Government House, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and Chinese Trade and Commerce Minister Chen Deming announced during a joint press conference that China would be purchasing 500,000 tons of soy bean oil from Argentina, seemingly putting behind a bilateral conflict that was affecting trade between both countries since 2009.

07/10/2012 | World

Merkel to face protests on first crisis visit to Greece

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Greeks she wants to keep their country in the euro when she visits Athens this week, but she faces a hostile reception from a people worn down by years of austerity and recession.

05/02/2013 | World

Iran's Ahmadinejad in Egypt on historic visit

16/02/2012 | World

UK's minister to visit Malvinas today

UK media has disclosed today that Universities Minister David Willets is to visit the Malvinas Islands today, thus becoming the first British minister to visit the South Atlantic archipelago.

02/05/2012 | World

Car bomb kills six after Obama leaves Afghan capital

A car bomb exploded outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul today hours after President Barack Obama signed a security pact during a short visit to a city that remains vulnerable to a resilient insurgency.

20/09/2012 | World

US deputy secretary of state visits Libya after deadly attack

US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in Tripoli, a week after a deadly attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

13/12/2011 | World

US Defense Secretary on surprise visit to Afghanistan

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Kabul today for an unannounced visit, as the United States and its Western allies reduce troop levels in Afghanistan despite persistent violence.

14/12/2011 | World

Pentagon chief: 'West and allies are winning in Afghanistan'

The United States and its allies are winning in Afghanistan, the US defense chief said, despite spreading violence, a resilient insurgency and uncertain prospects for a peace deal the West had hoped might end a decade of war.

15/02/2012 | World

UK MPs to visit Malvinas next month

Members of the UK’s Defence Select Committee have confirmed that a group of British Members of Parliament (lawmakers) will be visiting the Malvinas Islands next month to inspect Britain’s military force after heightening tensions with Argentina before the 30th anniversary of the conflict.

19/08/2011 | World

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates World Youth Day

Pope Benedict XVI met with teachers and university professors today at the historic San Lorenzo de Escorial Monastery, on the second day of his visit to Spain and warned against a utilitarian focus in education, which he considered to conduct “science without limits,” and to be “totalitarianism”.

20/08/2011 | World

Pope says priests must live saintly lives

Pope Benedict said today Roman Catholic priests must live saintly lives and men should only enter the priesthood if they were convinced they could live by all the Church's rules, including celibacy.

29/11/2011 | World

Biden makes surprise visit to Iraq

US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Baghdad today to visit US troops nearing completion of their withdrawal from Iraq by year-end.

15/03/2012 | Latin America

CFK arrives to Chile ahead of Piñera meeting

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner landed in Santiago, Chile, where she will meet with her Chilean counterpart Sebastián Piñera. Fernández de Kirchner and Piñera will hold a meeting on Friday and will discuss the Argentine claim of sovereignty over the Malvinas islands and trade barriers, among other topics.

16/04/2012 | Argentina

Puricelli flys to Brazil

Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli will travel to Brazil today to meet with his counterpart Celso Amorim, with whom he will analyze different issues on the bilateral agenda.