Falkland Islands
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:05:00 GMTWork to fully reopen Argentina's Petrel Base in Antarctica goes on
Argentine Navy's ARA Puerto Argentino sloop has sucessfully unloaded supplies and machinery this week at the Petrel Base in Antarctica, it was reported. A self-propelled pontoon built entirely at the Tandanor–CINAR shipyard w...
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:24:00 GMTFalklands' Chamber of Commerce organizes First Environmental Business Symposium
The Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce has announced the first Falkland Islands Environmental Business Symposium, will be held at 12:30 on the 18th of March. The Chamber is bringing together speakers from organizations across...
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:12:00 GMTPatagonia January inflation 3,6%, double the Falklands' annual retail prices index
Despite highly subsidized public rates, a long list of coerced consumer prices, relatively cheap fuel in the current global energy-short environment, the Consumer Price Index in Argentine Patagonia, mainly Tierra del Fuego, rea...
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:09:00 GMTLast living Yagan language speaker dies aged 93; members of her ethnicity lived in the Falklands
The last known living person who spoke Yagan, the language of the indigenous people who inhabited Tierra del Fuego, passed away this week in the Clinics Hospital from Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile. She was 93, and had to...
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:50:00 GMTFalklands Government reiterates the need to respect human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation
On Tuesday the Falklands government in an official release reiterated the need for human rights and democratic liberties of the Falklands' nation to be respected, particularly self-determination.
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:15:00 GMTBritain, China and the Falkland Islands: Why the US must weigh in
By Dov S. Zakheim (*)This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory, on April 2, 1982.
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 10:06:00 GMTLatin American and Caribbean parliament call for Falklands' sovereignty talks with UK
The Latin American and Caribbean Parliament, (Parlatino) met this week in Panama and called on the international community to support Argentina's request for a resumption of Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty talks with the ...
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:37:00 GMT“Everything Changed”, A Falkland Islander’s Photographic Record of Invasion, Occupation, War and Aftermath
By Graham Bound – “Light falls on the faces and the eyes of men. Even from a distance of four decades, we gain a glimpse of their emotions: despair, pride, exhaustion, determination, and fear”
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMTBrazil supports Argentine Malvinas claim but since UK is an 'important partner', authorizes RAF landings
Brazil on Tuesday defended its decision to allow British military aircraft flying to the Falkland Island to call at Brazilian airports, landings that annoyed Argentina. The complaint is not new, and Brazilian policy under diffe...
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:32:00 GMTSouth Sandwich hidden magnitude-8.2 earthquake source of mysterious 2021 global tsunami
By American Geophysical Union – Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a ts...