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Robert Tait in Washington

Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands

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Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/Pool/CNP/Shutterstock

Donald Trump has suggested he is reconsidering US support for Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, in a move likely to strain the “special relationship” between Washington and London.

“I always review every position – that’s just one of many,” the US president told reporters in the White House, in response to a question about whether he was reviewing the US’s position over the South Atlantic islands, an archipelago whose status has long been disputed by Argentina, which claims sovereignty.

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