Ghost town of Epecuen emerges from the sea in Argentina
Posted by: prabirghose
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-13 17:50:29 -0700 | travel-news
The town of Epecuen in Argentina was once a bustling tourist resort but for the last quarter of a century it remained submerged underwater and is now gradually coming alive. A natural calamity turned the town overnight into a ghost...
Original signed copy of Margaret Thatcheri¿½s telex which ended Falklands conflict is set to fetch i¿...
Source: Mail Online UK
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-06 09:59:36 -0700 | travel-news
Richard Westwood-Brookes, historic books specialist at Mullocks Auctioneers, stands over the Falklands Telex which he says is one of the most important documents currently on sale Names: Another sheet of paper framed alongside the telex is signed by a number...
33-year-old identified as fatality in crash of motorcycle, school bus
Source: Sacramento Bee
San Juan :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-17 01:14:41 -0700 | travel-news
According to the California Highway Patrol, which investigates incidents involving school buses, Percival was riding a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle westbound on San Juan Road, east of Tumbleweed Way in South Natomas about 6:45 a.m. A school bus belonging to the...
Biz buzz
Source: Contra Costa Times
San Ramón de la Nueva Orán :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-08 20:52:09 -0700 | travel-news
Font Resize Staff reports Chevron gets OK for Brazil restart San Ramon-based Chevron has received permission from Brazil to restart oil production from an offshore energy field that was shut down due to a leak of crude oil from the...
Argentina, Iran to investigate '94 bombing of Jewish center
Source: Washington Post
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-05 11:43:26 -0700 | travel-news
Argentina She was just 21, visiting the city's main Jewish community center with her mother, when a suicide bomber detonated a rental van loaded with explosives. Paola Czyzewski and 84 others were killed in the July 18, 1994, bombing, which...
Chevron refinery could restart within a few days: regulators
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Ramón de la Nueva Orán :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-04 21:19:31 -0700 | travel-news
State regulators said Thursday they may be within days of allowing Chevron to resume operations at its refinery in Richmond, which has been hobbled since a fire in August...That means the refinery could resume full operations soon after that...San Ramon-based...
Argentina rains death toll up to 55, 20 missing
Source: Boston.com
La Plata :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-04 16:43:56 -0700 | travel-news
Argentina (AP) Provincial Gov. Daniel Scioli says 49 people have died in the flooded Argentine city of La Plata, where torrential rains swamped entire neighborhoods, washing away cars and flooding some houses to their rooftops. The overall death toll is...
Floods in Argentina paralyses life, leave more than 50 dead
Posted by: prabirghose
La Plata :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-07 12:23:54 -0700 | travel-news
Heavy rains and floods have left at least 46 dead in the city of La Plata in Argentina and had earlier taken the lives of six others in Buenos Aires as reported in news.sky.com of dated Many of the deaths...
Buenos Aires Jews mark embassy bombing
Source: j.
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-03-21 12:20:28 -0700 | travel-news
Nearly 1,500 people participated in the March 17 demonstration organized by the embassy to mark the attack, which Argentina and Israel blame on Iran. On March 17, 1992, a suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the front...
Now hike Mt Everest, Mt Kilimanjaro sitting at home with Google Maps
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-03-19 10:30:37 -0700 | travel-news
Now people can easily climb the world's most famous mountains, like Mt...Everest and Aconcagua in South America with the help of Google Maps. Having increasingly taken Street View off-road in recent times, Google's new Maps update takes the interactive project...
Epecuen, a ghost town near Buenos Aires has only one inhabitant
Posted by: prabirghose
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-03-19 21:27:48 -0700 | travel-news
Epecuen, a vibrant lake country spa town near Buenos Aires, once boasted of a population of 1500 residents - it now has only one: an 81-year old man Pablo Novak who goes about on his bicycle surveying the ruins of...
Argentina: una meraviglia per tutti i sensi!
Posted by: evolutiontravel
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-01-17 13:54:39 -0800 | travel-news
"Siete libere le prossime due settimane?" Chi l'avrebbe mai detto che rispondere “Sì” a quella domanda ci avrebbe dato la possibilità di conoscere l'Argentina. E’ proprio così, la nostra prima visita in Argentina è stata...
Chapman Freeborn expands its coverage in South America by launching new office
Posted by: gabioban
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2012-12-06 14:13:04 -0800 | travel-news
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering is happy to communicate the further extension of its operations in South America with the establishment of commercial representation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The global aircraft charter specialist's new location is placed in the offices of our...
Protests in Buenos Aires to mark anniversary of war
Source: B92
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2012-06-03 15:53:34 -0700 | technology-news
Several protesters were lightly injured in a protest outside the British embassy in Buenos Aires, organized over disputed Falkland (Malvinas) Islands. (Beta) Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters, who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police...
Argentina train crash: Driver blames faulty brakes
Posted by: msafdar
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2012-03-06 17:27:10 -0800 | travel-news
The driver of an Argentine train which had crashed last Wednesday, taking lives of 51 people, had blamed it on faulty brakes for the accident. Over 700 had been injured when the train had hit the buffers as it had...
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