Falkland Islands

• Friday, July 10th 2026 - 09:51 UTC

  SAERI launches new research projects across the Falklands and South Atlantic

  

  The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) has secured funding for a series of new scientific projects aimed at strengthening environmental monitoring, conservation science and evidence-based management across the Falklands and the wider South Atlantic.

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• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 16:23 UTC

  Falklands planning business delegation to Uruguay to buy construction materials, ‘costs the crux of the issue”

  

  Talks are continuing over a potential Falkland Islands business delegation to Uruguay later this year. Organized by Falkland Islands Development Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce, the visit would connect Falklands businesses with Uruguayan suppliers. The issue was discussed with Sam Cockwell, Strategic Projects Manager at the Falklands Development Corporation, FIDC

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• Thursday, July 9th 2026 - 14:23 UTC

  Falklands lawmaker meets UK Conservative leader during Westminster visit

  

  A member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Cheryl Roberts, met on Tuesday in Westminster with the leader of the UK opposition and of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, as part of a round of political engagements in the United Kingdom.

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• Tuesday, July 7th 2026 - 08:05 UTC

  Royal Navy patrol ship HMS Medway makes first port call at Chile's Punta Arenas

  

  The British Royal Navy's patrol vessel HMS Medway (P223) docked on Sunday morning at Punta Arenas, in Chile's Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region, on its first visit to the port. The stop, for resupply, is due to last until Wednesday, July 8.

• Saturday, July 4th 2026 - 23:35 UTC

  Scathing comments on Labour’s Defense Plan, Sir Keir has scrapped more warships than Britain lost in Falklands War

  

  Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West has warned that the Royal Navy was in its worst state for 350 years, “the number of ships we have is pathetic, to do the things we need to do.”

• Saturday, July 4th 2026 - 20:17 UTC

  Falklands, links between Cape Verde and the Islands

  

  Everybody (rather all football supporters) enjoyed the extraordinary match between the supposedly rookie team of Cabo Verde Islands and the current Argentine world Cup holders. It was a spectacular match, Cabo Verde challenging the champs, and following a first goal from Messi, the team from the former Portuguese colony put up a marvelous resistance and attack.

• Friday, July 3rd 2026 - 09:58 UTC

  Mercosur backs Argentina days after Islanders' UN appeal for self-determination

  

  Within the span of a week, the two opposing positions in the Falklands dispute were laid out clearly in two separate arenas: South American governments' backing for Argentina's sovereignty claim, and the defense of self-determination that two representatives of the Islanders took to the United Nations. Neither pronouncement was a reply to the other, but together they illustrate the distance between two hard-to-reconcile logics.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2026 - 09:55 UTC

  A Spanish investigation tracks how Asia's squid fleet is upending the South Atlantic market

  

  An international investigation published by the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial, with an extensive interactive report, describes how the expansion of Asian fishing fleets in international waters —mainly Chinese— has transformed the global market for frozen squid, with a direct impact on the European fleet and consequences for fishing in the South Atlantic, one of the main sources of income for the Falklands.

• Monday, June 29th 2026 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's Pacific-pact bid would make it a trade partner of the UK, raising a Falklands dilemma

  

  Argentina's request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) has reopened a question over its sovereignty claim to the Falklands, since the United Kingdom is a full member of that agreement. If it goes ahead, it would be the first trade pact of this magnitude, since the 1982 war, in which Argentina would share partner status with London outside traditional multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organization.

• Monday, June 29th 2026 - 08:24 UTC

  Milei brings open disputes with Brazil to a Mercosur summit focused on trade deals

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will take part on Monday and Tuesday in the Mercosur summit of heads of state in Asunción, a meeting whose trade agenda —led by the agreement with the European Union— will coexist with open political tensions with Brazil that threaten to overshadow the bloc's progress. Paraguay's Foreign Minister, Rubén Ramírez, confirmed the presence of seven leaders, among them the presidents of Chile, José Antonio Kast, and Ecuador, Daniel Noboa.