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Montevideo, October 19th 2026 - 05:26 UTC

Stories for September 28th 2026

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 09:33 UTC

    London says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands

    Streeting also said “this issue was settled in 1982” and that the will of the archipelago's residents, “the overwhelming majority of whom choose to be British”, remains unchanged

    British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sunday published on Saturday. Asked whether London could protect the archipelago militarily if Buenos Aires sent warships, he answered yes.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:09 UTC

    Chile reinforcing its military presence in Magallanes Region and Antarctica

    Minister Barros said defense requires planning and Chile must have the necessary capacities to protect its sovereignty, territorial integrity and the security of its people.

    Chile announced the reinforcement of its military capacities in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of the country with a plan that includes renewal of aircraft, modernization of armored vehicles, increased vigilance and presence in the austral territory and Antarctica, updating of military strategy based on experiences from the current war scenarios in Europe and Middle East.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

    Falklands at Labour Conference in Liverpool

    PM Burnham is scheduled to address the conference tomorrow 29 Tuesday

    British political parties are holding their annual round of conferences and Labour, in government, has chosen the city of Liverpool for a gathering that started on Sunday, 27 September and will last for three days until 30th September.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 07:51 UTC

    The Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign

    The column describes Milei as having moved from economic libertarianism to nationalism and, having once celebrated Margaret Thatcher, now seeking to attract Donald Trump with oil concessions

    An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other British overseas territories, among them the Falklands. The piece, by journalist Daniel Johnson, is an argument of opinion rather than a report of new facts.

  • Monday, September 28th 2026 - 06:01 UTC

    Britain has just received a painful reminder that nobody respects weakness

    Donald Trump muses about transferring part of our territory to Ireland. The EU threatens us with illegal car and steel tariffs

    By Daniel Hannan (*)

    As the Chagos humiliation shows, the Foreign Office’s slavish adoration of international courts has got us nowhere. What has all our imagined soft power brought us? For all our performative internationalism, we find ourselves friendless.