- The government can divide extraordinary sessions of the National Congress into two parts. First, the push that will extend from December 11 to the end of the same month, with a focus on approving the 2026 budget and financial clearance. While in February, they will aim to address the series of reforms planned by Javier Miley’s administration.
- Allied with Donald Trump, President Javier Miley will not participate in the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa. The Argentine presence at the meeting will be presented by Foreign Minister Pablo Cuerno and former Macri lawmaker Federico Pinedo, who will have the role of Sherpa, that is, high-level personal representative of the head of state or government. He is responsible for negotiating and supervising the work of the meetings preparing for the final summit.
- The emergence of a video from a security camera has led to the reorganization of the investigation into the death of 18-year-old student Matilda Lopez Sanzetinha, who fell from the second-floor balcony of a building in San Telmo. The case is being investigated as a possible femicide and the victim’s boyfriend remains in custody.
- The peace signed between Thailand and Cambodia under the auspices of Donald Trump lasted less than a month. The US President had presented that agreement as one of the eight wars he helped conclude, but now everything is back to square one after two Thai soldiers were injured in a mine explosion while they were patrolling the common border in Sisaket Province.
- The Pan American Health Organization officially announced that the region lost its measles elimination certification because Canada, one of 35 U.S. countries and territories, failed to stop the spread of the same viral strain in one year. Argentina was able to remain a measles-free country after controlling the outbreak within a year that began with two minors from a Russian family who became infected during a trip abroad.
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