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Montevideo, October 15th 2026 - 05:40 UTC

Argentina

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:30 UTC

    Milei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project

    Argentina demanded that the United Kingdom take the necessary measures within that period to prevent the start or continuation of hydrocarbon exploitation and refrain from granting new permits

    Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday instructed the foreign ministry and the government's legal teams to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil project in the basin north of the Falklands, and gave London two weeks to halt the activity before Argentina turns to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

  • Tuesday, September 29th 2026 - 07:09 UTC

    Milei denies a recession and says indicators are “throwing out anything”

    Milei linked the economic difficulties to opposition initiatives in Congress and to security concerns

    Argentine President Javier Milei denied the country is in recession and questioned the reading of statistics showing rising poverty and falling economic activity. “The indicators are throwing out anything,” he said on Sunday in an interview with journalist Luis Majul on the programme La Cornisa, on the LN+ channel.

  • 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 - 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.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 23:26 UTC

    Falklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”

    Ford thanked the British prime minister, the foreign secretary, the minister for the Overseas Territories and figures “right across the UK political spectrum” for their support

    The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and steadfast in defending the right of the archipelago's residents to determine their own future.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 21:28 UTC

    Milei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York

    Asked by Argentine reporters whether the subject had come up, Quirno said “yes”, and “fine” when asked how that part of the conversation had gone

    Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government during his trip to New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed they discussed the Falklands.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:41 UTC

    “The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei

    “The UN has more reason to exist every day,” Orsi said, while calling for multilateral institutions that are “more effective, more representative” and closer to people's needs

    Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that of his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, two days earlier from the same podium.

  • Friday, September 25th 2026 - 10:26 UTC

    Poverty in Argentina rises to 32.3%, ending two years of decline

    The measurement covers the 31 urban agglomerations surveyed by the Permanent Household Survey, where 9,729,000 people fell below the poverty line and 2,249,000 below the extreme poverty line

    Poverty in Argentina reached 32.3% of people in the first half of 2026, an increase of 4.1 percentage points on the second half of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on Thursday. The figure interrupts the downward path the indicator had followed since mid-2024. Extreme poverty rose 1.2 points, from 6.3% to 7.5%.

  • Thursday, September 24th 2026 - 10:59 UTC

    UK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”

    Photo: REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

    The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “is wholly incompatible with the principles established in the United Nations Charter and is not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”.

  • Wednesday, September 23rd 2026 - 17:54 UTC

    Milei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”

    It was his third speech as president to the body and the eighth of the day's speakers, running 19 minutes

    Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look the other way” on the dispute. “The Malvinas are a national cause for us,” he said, repeating the phrase twice at the start of his address.