The Latest Breaking News from Falkland Islands

Argentina’s president rules out military action over Falkland Islands

Milei’s remarks mark first time he has ruled out military intervention on the territory since Trump said he would review US support for British sovereignty

The Independent UK · Oct 22

How Argentina’s Javier Milei hopes to exploit a dispute over Falklands oil in next year’s election

Argentina is trying to stop a planned oil project near the Falkland Islands. On October 13, the government asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas (Itlos), a court in Hamburg that deals with disputes over the sea, to halt the project. Argentina says the UK approved the…

The Conversation · Oct 21

‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina

Facing a slump in the polls, Argentina’s president is making economic attacks on the islands’ oil industry, and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18

Argentina moves to stop Falklands' first commercial oil project, escalating row with UK

Argentina on Tuesday said it has approached an international maritime tribunal seeking to halt an oil development project off the disputed Falkland Islands, escalating its dispute with the United Kingdom, which controls the archipelago.

The Times of India · Oct 13

Argentina takes fight with UK over Falklands' oil industry to international tribunal

Argentina is asking an international tribunal to stop an oil project off the disputed Falkland Islands

The Independent UK · Oct 13

Ed Miliband ‘approves new drilling in Falklands oil field’

The decision will likely further deteriorate relations between Britain and Argentina

The Independent UK · Oct 13

Argentina issues new deadline to UK over Falkland Islands

It comes just days after Mr Milei criticised the UN in his speech at the General Assembly for failing to act over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands

The Independent UK · Sep 29

Argentina’s Milei threatens to sue UK over Falkland Islands oil project

Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday threatened to sue the UK over the Sea Lion oil project near the disputed Falkland Islands. Argentina claims sovereignty over the British-administered territory, where a 1982 war killed 255 British and 649 Argentine troops. Developers Navitas and Rockhopper say they hold valid British-issued exploration…

France 24 · Sep 29

"A Caste of Parasites": Milei's UN Broadside Puts the Falklands Back on the Agenda

Javier Milei blasted the UN as useless in his General Assembly address, reviving Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands.

Latin Times · Sep 25

Milei threatens at UN that Argentina will take ‘matters into our own hands’ on Falklands

Argentinian president accuses United Nations of being filled with ‘parasites’ in bellicose general assembly speech

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23