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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

Entertainment

  • Wednesday, May 7th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Trump wants movies produced in the US

    It is yet unclear whether Trump targets foreign productions only or if he would also go after US pictures shot abroad. And will streaming platforms be reached?

    US President Donald Trump announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on foreign films, citing national security concerns and the decline of the American film industry. The measure aims to counter incentives offered by other countries, like Canada and the UK, which attract US filmmakers and studios, leading to reduced production in Hollywood. “We want movies made in the United States!” he insisted.

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  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 19:59 UTC

    Argentine “full-time” 1978 World football champ Luis Galván dies, aged 77

    Luis Galván played Argentina's all 7 games in the 1978 World Cup, never being substituted. He donned the #7 jersey and was 77 years old at the time of his passing

    Argentine “full-time” 1978 World Cup-winning defender Luis Adolfo Galván died Monday at the age of 77 due to bilateral pneumonia and kidney failure, just one year after that team's coach, César Luis Menotti. Since Menotti chose to number them in alphabetical order, Luis Galván donned the “7” jersey. He was in the starting lineup for all seven of Argentina's matches and was never substituted throughout the tournament, a record he shared only with Ubaldo Fillol (Goalkeeper - #5), Daniel Passarella (Defender, captain, #19), Alberto Tarantini (Defender, #20), and Mario Kempes (Forward, top scorer, #10).

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  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:15 UTC

    Over 2 million people fill Rio's Copacabana Beach to see Lady Gaga

    The event clearly surpassed Madonna's 1.6 attendees

    Lady Gaga's historic free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning attracted around 2.1 million attendees, surpassing the previous record set by Madonna in 2024 (1.6 million people). The show had been highly anticipated, especially since Gaga last performed in Brazil in 2012.

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  • Tuesday, April 29th 2025 - 07:31 UTC

    Falklands’ volleyball team competing in international tournament in Punta Arenas

    Before boarding the bus to MPC airport

    Another sport that is picking up in the Falkland Islands is volleyball, and last Saturday a delegation with ladies and men teams left for an international three day completion taking place in Punta Arenas, Chile, where the Falklands flag will be flying.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

    Falklands’ volleyball team competing in international tournament in Punta Arenas

    The men’s team displaying the Falklands flag

    Another sport that is picking up in the Falkland Islands is volleyball, and last Saturday, a delegation with ladies' and men's teams left for an international three-day competition in Punta Arenas, Chile, where the Falklands flag will be flying.

  • Monday, April 28th 2025 - 09:42 UTC

    Falklands’ ice hockey player displays her talent and skills at British Universities Women’s Cup winning team

    The Oxford Women’s Blue team celebrating victory

    During a recent sports reception at Government House, Governor Alison Blake CMG underlined how the Falkland Islands despite their small population have such a thriving sporting community with over twenty different disciplines involving adults women and men, and girls and boys.

  • Tuesday, April 22nd 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Milei's romantic partner announces end of relationship

    Milei has been involved with entertainment figures who never played any First Lady roles

    Amalia Josefina Trombetta, known publicly as Amalia Yuyito González, announced Monday that her romantic affair with Argentine President Javier Milei had come to an end after less than a year.

  • Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:41 UTC

    Argentina found to be Latin America's ”most hated” country

    China tops the list of most-hated countries worldwide

    According to a recent report by the website World Population Review, Argentina ranks 24th among the 30 “most hated” countries globally, making it the most negatively perceived country in Latin America. Mexico is second, at 28th. Argentina and Mexico are the only two Latin American nations on the list.

  • Monday, April 21st 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Argentine goalkeeping legend Hugo Gatti dies aged 80

    Gatti shone between the early 1960s and the late 1980s with his controversial goalkeeping

    Argentine President Javier Milei Sunday joined hundreds of thousands of Argentine football fans who mourned the death of “El Loco” (The Madman) Hugo Orlando Gatti, a legendary goalkeeper who wore the jerseys of both major clubs River Plate and Boca Juniors as well as the national team, collecting 18 caps.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

    Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

    A Communist in his younger years, he became a free-trade advocate

    Peruvian writer and former Presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa passed away Sunday in Lima at the age of 89, his son Álvaro announced. He wrote over 20 novels, the first one appearing in 1959. In 2010, he was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in Literature. Vargas Llosa was also a journalist, essayist, and university professor.

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