Falkland Islands / Malvinas

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:03:00 GMT
Argentina asks the law of the sea tribunal to halt Sea Lion and bar new oil permits
Argentina has asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to order the United Kingdom to prevent the development of the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands and to refrain from granting new permits to exploit...

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:03:00 GMT
Miliband: Falklands residents have the right to develop their resources “as they see fit”
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the people of the Falkland Islands “have a right to develop their natural resources as they see fit”, as he announced on X the British government’s measures to pr...

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:53:00 GMT
UK Overseas Territories Minister accuses Milei of using the Falklands for electoral ends
British Overseas Territories Minister Uma Kumaran on Tuesday accused Argentine President Javier Milei of a “brazen attempt to use the people of the Falkland Islands as some sort of political prop ahead of Argentina’s electi...

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:45:00 GMT
London says it will abide by any law of the sea provisional measures as it moves to shield its companies
The British government said on Tuesday that any provisional measures ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are binding and that the United Kingdom complies with its international obligations, on the same ...

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:13:00 GMT
“Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump
“In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of...

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:10:00 GMT
Brexit campaigner Daniel Hannan warns a US shift on the Falklands would wreck the Atlantic alliance
Daniel Hannan, one of the leading strategists of the Brexit campaign and director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has warned in the Washington Examiner that a change in the US position on the Falklands would...

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:04:00 GMT
BAS researchers uncover chinstrap penguins massive colony decline in Antarctic volcanic island
A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost its title of largest penguin colony in the world, as new research reveals massive population declines, igniting fears for species’ survival. Researchers from British Antarctic...

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:58:00 GMT
A Falklands friend: HMS Westminster Type 23 frigate to be scrapped in Turley
It marks the end of an era for a former Royal Navy Type 23 frigate that has served since 1992, and was well known in the Falkland Islands given her recurrent visits a South Atlantic patrol.

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:29:00 GMT
Why Argentina's Falklands sanctions do not automatically reach Sea Lion's operator
The sanctions Argentina has imposed on companies involved in the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands target specific entities rather than entire corporate groups, so the subsidiary currently operating the field is not a...

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:18:00 GMT
What could happen when Argentina's Sea Lion ultimatum to the UK expires
The two-week deadline Argentina gave the United Kingdom to halt the Sea Lion oil project in the North Falklands basin expires around October 12. Its expiry will not in itself suspend the project or establish a British breach of...

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