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Members of the Orquesta de los Barrios youth orchesta: Micaela Sandoval, Ruth Geréz, Lucas Flores.

Youth orchestra cultivates more than just music

Today 05:15 Director Néstor Tedesco’s Orquesta de los Barrios youth orchestra provides a network of support for young musicians from the city’s shantytowns.

by Zella Milfred

Un fuerte terremoto de 7,4 grados se registró al sur de Ushuaia y hay alerta de tsunami en Chile

TSUNAMI WARNING

Major offshore quake causes tsunami scare in Chile, Argentina

Yesterday 13:18 Residents of the remote southern village of Puerto Almanza were ordered to evacuate the area over threat of a tsunami caused by an earthquake off southern coast of South America.

President Javier Milei gestures as he speaks during the inauguration of the 143rd ordinary session of Congress at the National Congress in Buenos Aires on March 1, 2025.

MEDIA & JOURNALISM

Milei severely damaging press freedom in Argentina, says watchdog

Yesterday 11:16 Report by Reporters Without Borders NGO puts Argentina in 87th place – since Milei’s arrival in office, nation has dropped 47 places on annual global press freedom ranking.

Anti-IMF and anti-Milei protesters during a CGT rally in Buenos Aires on April 30, 2025.

the week in review

Stories that caught our eye: April 25 to May 1

01-05-2025 17:00 Our (almost a weekly) round-up of what you need to know about Argentina.

POLITICS

Transport secretary for chop as Milei government churn continues

01-05-2025 15:18 Franco Mogetta, linked to Córdoba Province Governor Juan Schiaretti, set to be latest official removed from President Milei’s administration.

City elections 2025: candidates for the legislature.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

The great debate

01-05-2025 09:39 The absurd multiplicity of 17 list-heading candidates for 30 City Legislature seats can be boiled down into a triangle of the PRO, libertarian and Peronist blocs, although this does not necessarily translate into only three candidates since others stand to make inroads.

by Michael Soltys

President Javier Milei and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping.

ARGENTINA-CHINA RELATIONS

Chinese business interests await gesture from Milei towards Xi

01-05-2025 09:18 Over-enthusiasm for the United States has damaged links with China, hampering political moves towards investment and trade agreements. A presidential trip to the Asian power is the key to smoothing the acrimony.

by Eugenia Muzio

GUEST COLUMN

Silvina Batakis: IMF betting on Milei because his failure would also be theirs

01-05-2025 07:42 This is a “political loan,” if not to say a campaign contribution, as in 2018.

Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks during the EFI 2025 Economic Forum in Buenos Aires, on April 30, 2025.

NEW MEASURES

Argentina eliminates export duties for thousands of manufactured goods

30-04-2025 21:34 President Javier Milei's government eliminates export duties for thousands of industrial products; Economy Minister Luis Caputo says tax levy was "affecting competitiveness" in announcement hailing the move.

Ricardo Darín stars in the new Netflix series 'El Eternauta,' based on the graphic novel written by Héctor Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López.

STREAMING & SERIES

Netflix’s 'El Eternauta' echoes fight against tyranny, says Darín

30-04-2025 21:20 Ricardo Darín defends Buenos Aires from an alien attack in new Netflix series 'El Eternauta,' based on the legendary graphic novel written by Héctor Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López.

A banner from the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) umbrella union grouping is displayed by workers during a rally against the government of President Javier Milei and to commemorate May Day (Labour Day) in Buenos Aires on April 30, 2025. Argentina's labor unions mobilized on Wednesday on the eve of Workers' Day with slogans against the austerity measures of President Javier Milei.

POLITICS & LABOUR

Milei sets end of inflation timeline amid union unrest

30-04-2025 21:13 CGT stages pre-May Day march to reject austerity policies; President Milei declares his government “best in history,” vows end to inflation by mid-2026.

Gago pays the price for Superclásico defeat.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Restoring Xeneize to glory will take more than firing and hiring

30-04-2025 17:21 Until Juan Román Riquelme takes a long, honest look in the mirror and faces up to the real problems the club he presides over faces, the challenge of restoring the glory days appears to be beyond even the most accomplished of coaches in world football.

by Dan Edwards

An Aerolíneas Argentinas aircraft departs Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires City.

STATE CARRIER

Aerolíneas Argentinas won’t be subsidised for first time since 2008

30-04-2025 16:48 Flagship airline Aerolíneas Argentinas won’t need state subsidies for the first time since the government nationalised the company almost two decades ago.

Candidates for 2025 elections for the Buenos Aires City Legislature – the debate.

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES CITY

Fragmented field means little debate in City debate

30-04-2025 15:54 Seventeen candidates standing in Buenos Aires City Legislature elections on May 18; Debate delivers insults and crossed words, but little in the way of policy.

A worker uses a counting machine for US$100 US banknotes at a currency exchange house in Buenos Aires.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Savers buying up dollars after Milei lifts currency controls

30-04-2025 12:08 Savers are going back to the bank to buy dollars after President Javier Milei granted them complete freedom to do so.

MINING & INDUSTRY

McEwen weighs Argentina share listing as part of copper unit IPO

30-04-2025 11:53 McEwen Copper is planning an IPO in New York or Toronto to help fund construction of its Los Azules project in San Juan Province.

death of diego maradona

Maradona death trial: Diego was not fit for home care, says doctor

30-04-2025 00:20 Fernando Villarejo, head of Clínica Olivos' intensive care unit, says he expressed his opposition to home care.

Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos appears before the lower house Chamber of Deputies to answer questions.

'CRYPTOGATE' SCANDAL

Francos faces Congress grilling over Milei’s links to '$LIBRA' scam

29-04-2025 23:50 Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos says President Milei “does not and did not maintain any link with the” '$LIBRA' crypto scam in lengthy session before lawmakers.

Alvin Holsey, head of United States Southern Command, meets President Milei.

FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY

US, Argentina deepen ‘strategic’ ties as top military officer visits

29-04-2025 15:12 Alvin Holsey, head of United States Southern Command, meets President Milei as three-day trip to Buenos Aires begins; Admiral will also visit base in Ushuaia.

Despite being denounced in 1975, former Gestapo officer Walter Kutschmann evaded justice for a decade before his 1985 arrest in Argentina, records show.

DECLASSIFICATION DRIVE

Declassified files show Nazi fugitive evaded capture for decade

29-04-2025 13:06 Despite being denounced in 1975, former Gestapo officer Walter Kutschmann evaded justice for a decade before his 1985 arrest in Argentina, records show.

Geopolitcs & trade

Xi is trying to turn world against US as Trump cuts trade deals

29-04-2025 11:03 Beijing officials are racing to turn foreign governments against the United States inside a 90-day window Trump has granted all nations — except China — to strike trade deals during a tariff reprieve.

Fernando Gago has been sacked by Boca Juniors.

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

Boca Juniors coach Fernando Gago sacked after Superclásico defeat

29-04-2025 10:57 Boca Juniors sack Fernando Gago, two days after the Xeneize slumped to a 2-1 defeat in the Superclásico to River Plate.

ELECTIONS 2025

PASO primaries suspended by Buenos Aires Province Legislature

28-04-2025 20:37 Buenos Aires Province Legislature votes to suspend the PASO primaries for this year’s midterm elections in the district.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Kicillof demands IMF probe into Georgieva's pro-Milei comments

28-04-2025 15:08 Buenos Aires Province governor and socialist lawmakers call for investigation after IMF chief’s controversial remarks that seemed to back Milei administration ahead of Argentina’s midterms.

Ronnie Scott's funeral at the British Cemetery in Chacarita, Buenos Aires.

COMMUNITY

Ronnie Scott laid to rest at British Cemetery

28-04-2025 15:07 Ronald David Scott remembered with “honour, respect and affection” at service at the British Cemetery in Chacarita.

by Michael Soltys

Leandro Santoro, Silvia Lospensato, Manuel Adorni, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Ramiro Marra.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Divided right bolsters Peronism in City as Karina’s strategy put to test

28-04-2025 14:24 Polling firms put the Peronist ticket led by Leandro Santoro ahead in Buenos Aires City. Battle between Manuel Adorni and Silvia Lospennato will set tone for electoral year.

by Giselle Leclercq

Images from the files declassified by Argentina's government.

DECLASSIFICATION DRIVE

Argentina opens up secret Nazi fugitive files to public

28-04-2025 12:19 On orders of President Javier Milei, General Archive of the Nation releases 1,850 files on activities of Nazi fugitives in Argentina; Files, now accessible to the public online, include details of banking operations, intelligence reports and more.

Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge García Cuerva and Vice-President Victoria Villarruel, during tributes to Pope Francis in the capital this week.

STATE & RELIGION

Church, Milei government play nice despite tensions, distrust

27-04-2025 20:35 Death of Pope Francis shines a spotlight on the relationship between Argentina’s religious leaders, the clergy and President Javier Milei’s government.

by Juan Pablo Kavanagh

This photograph taken with slow shutter and zooming effect shows cardinals (top) and bishops (bottom) attending a holy mass a day after the funeral of Pope Francis, at St Peter's square in The Vatican, on April 27, 2025.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Diplomacy likely to trump geography in choice of new pope

27-04-2025 10:36 Pope Francis championed far-flung regions long overlooked by the Church and a non-European pope would make sense, given that Catholicism is growing in Africa and Asia.

Faithful attend a mass to bid farewell to Pope Francis in front of the Buenos Aires Cathedral on April 26, 2025. With songs, candles, flags, and prayers, Buenos Aires mourners marked the burial of pontiff and native son Pope Francis on Saturday. As the 88-year-old was being laid to rest an ocean away in Rome, thousands gathered by Buenos Aires' cathedral for dawn vigils and a mass of remembrance.

DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS

Buenos Aires bids farewell to native pontiff with call to action

26-04-2025 12:18 "Let us be the outgoing Church that Francis always wanted us to be, a restless Church that mobilises," says Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge García Cuerva at funeral Mass.

Argentina's President Javier Milei, Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei and other leaders look on as pallbearers prepare to lift the coffin during late Pope Francis' funeral ceremony at St Peter's Square at the Vatican on April 26, 2025.

DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS

Hundreds of thousands mourn Pope Francis at Vatican funeral

26-04-2025 08:55 Coffin of Pope Francis laid to rest at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for burial, following his funeral at the Vatican.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the late Pope Francis.

OBITUARY: POPE FRANCIS (1936-2025)

The Pope from the 'ends of the earth' called to 'repair' the Church

26-04-2025 05:00 Jorge Bergoglio enters history as the first American Pope. During his time heading the Catholic Church, he reformed Vatican governance, pushed for peace and reconciliation and guided the Church through some of the darkest moments in recent years, taking measures against child abuse by members of the clergy.

by Darío Silva D'Andrea

As I see it

Goodbye to the Argentine papacy

26-04-2025 05:00 While some of the causes Bergoglio embraced may have been good, by adopting them he blurred the distinction between Catholicism and what most of the “progressive” atheists and agnostics who have long dominated Western culture already take for granted.

by James Neilson

POPE FRANCIS (1936-2025)

Francis: The most important Argentine in history

26-04-2025 05:00 Monarchs, heads of state, religious leaders and the Catholic faithful will descend on the Vatican today in huge numbers as the world bids a final farewell to Pope Francis, the Flores-born kid who ascended to one of the powerful positions in the world.

by James Grainger

Pope Francis and Argentina's recent presidents.

Analysing Argentina

The shepherd who lost his country

26-04-2025 05:00 Argentina electing Milei, just as an Argentine was running the Vatican on a unifying message, is as if John Paul II had seen his Polish compatriots vote for a version of Joseph Stalin, rather than Lech Wałęsa.

by Marcelo J. García

Editorial

More than a nation mourns

26-04-2025 05:00 Rest in peace Franciscus.

Marwan Gill meets Pope Francis at the Vatican.

GUEST COLUMN

Pope Francis and his message of brotherhood

25-04-2025 23:44 Theological, ideological or political differences must not become excuses to distance ourselves from each other. On the contrary, they must inspire us to engage even closer in meaningful dialogue.

by Marwan Gill

Faithful attend an interfaith mass for the late Pope Francis at Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral on April 22, 2025, a day after his death. The Argentine pontiff, 88, died on April 21 after a stroke, less than a month after returning home from five weeks in the hospital battling double pneumonia, and his funeral will be held on April 26, the Vatican announced.

THE WEEK IN REIVEW

Stories that caught our eye: April 17 to 24

25-04-2025 16:16 A selection of stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Peronist leaders accuse IMF chief of publicly backing Milei

25-04-2025 14:37 Axel Kicillof and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accuse IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva of publicly backing President Javier Milei's government ahead of key elections.

Mourners attend a rosary prayer in Saint Peter's Square on the day of Pope Francis' death in Vatican City

FUNERAL OF POPE FRANCIS

A simple funeral for Pope Francis becomes conduit to see Trump

25-04-2025 14:26 Funeral for Pope Francis risks being turned into high-profile stage for international diplomacy at a moment of geopolitical turmoil.

A delegation of the Argentine Holocaust Museum takes part in the March of the Living to honour the victims of the Holocaust in front of the main gate with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' (Work sets you free) at the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 24, 2025. The March of the Living in 2025 from the former Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, according to organisers.

REMEMBRANCE

Everyone needs to go to Auschwitz-Birkenau

25-04-2025 14:00 At this potentially dark hour, the Holocaust should serve as a message of what could lie ahead, if we continue fan the flames of hatred and fear.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Culture Secretary Leonardo Cifelli appears at the inauguration of the 49th edition of the Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires.

FERIA DEL LIBRO 2025

Culture secretary heckled at inauguration of BA Book Fair

25-04-2025 13:21 Writers hold up signs bearing Osvaldo Bayer’s image as Culture Secretary Leonardo Cifelli is met with jeers at the opening of the 49th edition of the Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ahead of an interview in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 14.

BLOOMBERG REPORT

Loan to Trump-friendly Argentina went against IMF board concerns

25-04-2025 11:23 Argentina's new loan with the International Monetary Fund was granted despite raising red flags for many of the lender's top decision-markers.

JP Morgan Chase & Co signage at the company's offices in New York, US, on Thursday, September 19, 2024.

ENERGY & GAS

JPMorgan, Citi among banks in talks for Argentina pipeline loan

25-04-2025 11:14 Money would fund Vaca Muerta Sur, featuring a pipeline running from Argentina’s shale heartland across northern Patagonia to the Atlantic coast.

Rabbi Daniel Goldman speaks during an inter-faith mass for the late Pope Francis at Buenos Aires Cathedral on April 22, 2025, a day after his death. The Argentine pontiff, 88, died on April 21 after a stroke, less than a month after returning home from five weeks in the hospital battling double pneumonia, and his funeral will be held on April 26, the Vatican announced.

FAITH & RELIGION

Argentina’s interfaith community celebrates Pope Francis

25-04-2025 11:01 Leaders of Judaism, Islam and several Christian denominations in Argentina poay tribute to Pope Francis’ "commitment to interfaith dialogue."

Cardinals walk near the Vatican in the streets of Rome on April 25, 2025. The Vatican on April 25, 2025, said over 128,000 people have already paid their respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica ahead of his funeral.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Hope, apprehension and politics: Cardinals search for new pope

25-04-2025 10:30 Catholic cardinals have admitted some apprehension at the responsibility of choosing the successor to the late Pope Francis.

This photograph shows Pope Francis' coffin as he lies in state with French nun Genevieve Jeanningros (Top L) paying her respects during a ceremony inside St Peter's Basilica following the procession of the late Pope's coffin from the chapel of Santa Marta to St Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican on April 23, 2025.

DEATH OF POPE FRANCIS

Sister Genevieve, French nun who broke protocol to see Pope's body

25-04-2025 10:09 Her image has gone round the world. Sister Geneviève broke protocol near Pope Francis’ coffin to remember the man he met following the murder of her aunt during Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Francis & Football

Not so saintly behaviour at Pope’s beloved San Lorenzo

25-04-2025 09:04 An unseemly mess has broken out at Francis’ favourite football club – it is impossible to escape the irony that this storm broke right at the moment the Cuervos' most ardent fan finally passed on.

by Dan Edwards

A member of Argentine Special Forces stands guard next to a wall with signs reading 'Justice for God' near the San Isidro court prior to the start of a trial hearing for the death of late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona in San Isidro, Buenos Aires province, on April 3, 2025.

DEATH OF DIEGO MARADONA

Maradona was 'very difficult patient,' surgeon tells court during trial into death

24-04-2025 23:58 A doctor attending Diego Maradona a few weeks before his death said Thursday that the football star "was a very difficult patient."

A picture of the late Pope Francis is displayed on the altar during a mass at the Buenos Aires Cathedral on April 23, 2025.

Death of pope francis

How Argentina will say goodbye to Pope Francis

24-04-2025 21:41 Argentina will bid final farewell to Pope Francis with a Mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, following vigils and pilgrimages to iconic places in the late pontiff’s life.

Carabineri stand guard with a background view of St Peter's Basilica of The Vatican where the late Pope lies in state, in Rome on April 24, 2025. The Vatican on April 24 said some 61,000 people had already paid their respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica ahead of his funeral.

Death of Pope Francis

Vatican welcomes world leaders for farewell for Francis

24-04-2025 21:34 Some 50 heads of state and 10 reigning monarchs to attend the funeral. Alongside Trump and Milei, they include Brazil President Lula, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Britain's Prince William.

Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires Book Fair returns with Middle East tint

24-04-2025 18:34 Forty-ninth edition of Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires returns to La Rural, running until May 12.

by Julia Malyszko

FUNERAL OF POPE FRANCIS

Pope's Argentine nephew donated tickets to travel to funeral

24-04-2025 15:48 Mauro Bergoglio, nephew of Pope Francis, says private donor had paid for him to travel to his uncle's funeral after the government failed to invite him to join officials travelling to Rome.

Kristalina Georgieva, International Monteary Fund (IMF) managing director.

IMF SUPPORT FOR MILEI

Georgieva urges Argentina to ‘stay the course’ with economic reforms

24-04-2025 15:43 IMF holds firm on 5.5% growth forecast despite global risks and trade uncertainty.

Death of Pope Francis

Milei set for funeral of 'most important Argentine in history’

24-04-2025 15:10 Javier Milei hails “impressive leader” before departing on flight bound for Rome to attend the funeral of Argentine pontiff at the Vatican; Impossible not to attend “event of this magnitude,” says President.

A woman places a lit candle on an altar in front of the house where the late Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, lived in the Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires on April 23, 2025.

LATE PONTIFF'S LEGACY

'Slum priests' take Pope's message to the poor

24-04-2025 11:18 The loss of Pope Francis has deeply affected the Catholic community worldwide, yet, priests from his hometown of Buenos Aires are keeping his legacy alive.

CURRENCY, FX POLICY

Peso will float freely, but it’s not yet time, says Bausili

24-04-2025 10:24 Argentina’s exchange rate will be fully liberalised “in time,” says Central Bank Governor Santiago Bausili at event in Washington.

MULTILATERALISM

IAEA chief Grossi voices interest in UN secretary-general post

24-04-2025 00:47 UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says he is "very seriously" considering a run to become UN secretary-general when the position opens up in 2027.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Economy grew more than expected in February

23-04-2025 22:47 Economic activity rose 5.7% in February year-on-year, reveals data from the INDEC national statistics bureau.

A currency exchange house in Buenos Aires on April 14, after Javier Milei eased currency controls in Argentina.

ANALYSIS: SHOCK THERAPY

Milei defies forecasts so far as Argentina’s peso strengthens

23-04-2025 22:41 Analysts see a stronger peso over the next few months with traders buying into President Javier Milei's plan.

A banner with the image of Pope Francis hangs from a stand at Pedro Bidegain stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina,

POPE & SPORT

A stadium and a San Lorenzo shirt for Argentina's 'Captain' Francis

23-04-2025 18:11 Tributes to the Argentine pontiff, a lifelong lover of the beautiful game, who died on Monday at the age of 88, have been peppered with football metaphors in his homeland.

Jorge Bergoglio with Néstor Kirchner; Pope Francis with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; with Mauricio Macri and Julia Awada; and with Alberto Fernández.

THE PONTIFF & POLITICS

A political Pope – probing Francis’ ties with Argentina’s presidents

23-04-2025 11:52 The man formerly known as Jorge Bergoglio recognised himself as being a political figure, long before his arrival in Rome. He once declared: "Christians should not be apolitical." A look at his links with Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Mauricio Macri, Alberto Fernández and Javier Milei.

ENERGY & GAS

Governors seek Vaca Muerta investments at Texas energy summit

23-04-2025 11:12 Leaders from four provinces in Argentina – Río Negro, Neuquén, Mendoza and Córdoba – aim to showcase their competitiveness to the global oil elite in Texas at the Offshore Technology Conference.

by Eugenia Muzio

This photo taken and released on April 23, 2025, by The Vatican Media shows pallbearers carrying the coffin of late Pope Francis during the procession of the late Pope's coffin from the chapel of Santa Marta to St Peter's Basilica.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Pope Francis' coffin carried to Saint Peter's Basilica

23-04-2025 08:54 Funeral preparations of Pope Francis have been initiated with the procession of his coffin to Saint Peter's Basilica.

Ranchers load feed pens for cattle on a farm in Maraba, Brazil.

AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK

From meat to grains, trade war is a boon to Brazil and Argentina

22-04-2025 14:38 Escalating tensions between the United States and China have created an opening for Brazil and Argentina to ramp up exports.

FINANCING BOOST?

Bessent signals US willingness to offer Argentina a credit line

22-04-2025 14:34 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump administration would be willing to offer Argentina’s government a credit line if President Javier Milei’s economic turnaround was in jeopardy.

People take photos of a portrait of the late Pope Francis displayed at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 21, 2025.

A POPE FOR LATIN AMERICA

Latin America bids fond farewell to its first pontiff

22-04-2025 13:17 News of death of Pope Francis moves many in Latin America; Personalities such as Lionel Messi and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pay tribute.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF holds firm on Argentina growth forecast despite global uncertainty

22-04-2025 12:35 Washington-based lender cites early 2025 economic rebound and rising confidence amid broader warnings over global slowdown.

Pope Francis meets Javier Milei in Vatican City, on February 12, 2024.

PRESIDENT TO ROME

Government confirms President Milei will attend Pope’s funeral

22-04-2025 11:36 President Javier Milei will leave on a flight bound for Rome on Thursday night to attend the funeral of Argentine pontiff at the Vatican; Sister Karina among travelling delegation that includes four ministers and spokesman.

PONTIFF'S LOVE OF FOOTBALL

The Pope with 'two left feet' who loved the 'beautiful game'

22-04-2025 10:34 For Pope Francis, football is more than just "the most beautiful game" – it can also be used as a vehicle to educate and spread peace.