Posts Tagged ‘falklands’

Argentina Destroys Falklands Peace Pact with the UK, threatens War Again

Argentina has ripped up a co-operation pact with the UK and demanded new talks over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. But in response, Foreign Minister James Cleverly insisted ‘the Falkland Islands are British’. The Falklands, known as the Malvinas in Spanish, were the subject of a short but brutal war after Argentina invaded in […]

President says Argentina will continue to fight for the Falklands, 36 years after bloody war

Located almost 13,000km from British shores and some 1,500km from Argentina, the Falkland Islands – also known as Las Malvinas – are the subject of a 200-year sovereignty dispute. Its bloodiest chapter came in 1982, when 900 people died in a war to decide the ownership of the islands, which were inhabited by fewer than […]

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