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Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. The head of the Front for Victory caucus at the Lower House, Agustín Rossi, said today that the reforms to the Judicial Power approved yesterday “entail the defense of noble values”.

Télam. National News agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. The Fintech Fund, owned by financial tycoon David Martínez, gave a new back to Argentina before the New York Court of Appeals, in the trial promoted by vulture funds.

Télam. National News agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. Argentina and South Korea signed a bilateral agreement aimed to strengthening the air-commercial bonds between both countries, in the framework of the admission of Aerolíneas Argentinas to the global alliance Skyteam.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. A Federal Oral Tribunal dismissed yesterday María Julia Alsogaray, accused of “fraud” and “negotiations incompatible for a public official”, due to the lawsuit had expired.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. According to the National Bureau of Statistics and Census (INDEC), sales in shopping malls increased by 19.4 percent in March, if compared year-on-year.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 26, 2013. Gerónimo Venegas, the head of the Farm Workers' Union (UATRE) and a right-wing Peronist, presented yesterday "Partido Fe", his new opposition political party.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner receives at the Government House her counterpart from Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. Both officials hold a meeting to review the "strategic and political" relation between both nations, as it was informed.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. President Cristina Fernández said, “I never paid attention to oracular” and invited entrepreneurs to keep investing in Argentina, because “in our country there is consumption and competitive advantages keep being good”.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The Lower House wound up today its special session on reforms to the Judicial Power, when it passed by 126 votes in favor and only 10 against the new regulations of preventative measures (injunctions) against the State and its agencies, already approved by the Senate. It will become law following the Executive’s enactment.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The House of Deputies passed early today the project that creates three new Cassation Chambers, part of the projects of reform of the Judicial Power sent by President Cristina Fernández. The result was 126 votes in favor and eight against. Most of the opposition sectors had already abandoned the session.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The Lower House, following a 16-hour debate, passed early today the Government project to reform the Council of Magistrates.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The Argentine Ambassador to Chile, Ginés González García, closed in the province of San Juan, the XXII Committee of Integration Meeting of San Juan, Argentina-Chile, next to the governor of San Juan, José Luis Gioja, and the mayor of Coquimbo, Mario Burlé.  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina April 25, 2013. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrived today for meetings with her colleague Cristina Fernandez, on the strategic bilateral relationship between the two nations.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. Cabinet Chief, Abal Medina said that "we need a Justice to rise to the occasion", in relation to the projects being debated at the National Congress on the Judicial reform and questioned the opposition that "it rather goes to a tent in front of the Congress or to TN (TV channel) instead of discussing into the Parliament."

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. Through her Twitter account, President Cristina Fernández confirmed yesterday that her Brazilian colleague Dilma Rousseff arrives today in Buenos Aires to consider issues of bilateral integration.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The judge of New York Thomas Griesa, who gathers all the causes against Argentina for bonds in default, decided to put off for April 29, the term to present the information required to Argentina - mainly Banco Nación - and Bank of America, in a case for a demand presented by vulture funds. 

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. Argentina made a written presentation rebuffing a request by Italian funds, which hold defaulted Argentine bonds. They requested to be incorporated to the cause before the New York Court of Appeals - through an amicus document - in favor of the vulture funds.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. Supreme Court Justice Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni confirmed that the highest tribunal decided by unanimous vote, not to open judgment on the content of the projects to reform the Judicial Power, sent by President Cristina Fernández and now under Congressional consideration.

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. "We should develop the local car parts industry hard as to increase the local integration and reduce the sectoral deficit", said the Industry Minister, Débora Giorgi. She remarked that the country "is just around the corner of producing a million vehicles per year."  

Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. April 25, 2013. The rate of poverty dropped to 5.4 percent during the second half of 2012, if compared year-on-year, informed the National Bureau of Statistics and Census (INDEC).