Falkland Islands

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 15:50 UTC

  Falklands’ “land release” demining phase begins next week with 18 Zimbabweans

  

  The team from BACTEC International Ltd that will be carrying out the second phase of the demining pilot project is in the Falklands are in the Islands and will look to release significant areas of land behind the Stanley Common fence to the South-west of the capital.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 14:42 UTC

  The Falklands, like a duck in basket

  

  Penguin News Deputy Editor John Fowler explains it from the point of view of the people that actually matter - the Islanders.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 05:31 UTC

  HMS Protector ‘complies with all requirements’ to operate from Montevideo

  

  Uruguay authorized the Royal Navy Ice Patrol HMS Protector into Montevideo because it complies with normal procedure in spite of the fact that its next port of call is Stanley in Falklands/Malvinas.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2012 - 04:56 UTC

  Argentina recalls 1833 Malvinas ‘dislodgement’ and demands bilateral dialogue

  

  Argentina ratified Tuesday its ‘imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and adjoining maritime spaces and blasted the UK for not abiding by UN resolutions calling for bilateral talks.

• Monday, January 2nd 2012 - 06:00 UTC

  Australia was prepared to take refugees from the Falklands during 1982 conflict

  

  Australia’s Malcolm Fraser Government considered taking British refugees from the Falkland Islands at the height of the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, reports the Sydney press based on the release of National Archives.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 18:43 UTC

  A Malvinas war veteran dies in an attempt to cross to the Falklands in a kayak

  

  A Malvinas war veteran drowned in an attempt to reach the Falkland Islands in a kayak from Ushuaia while his companion was rescued by an Argentine Navy patrol and is in hospital in a state of chock, reported the Buenos Aires press in the last day of 2011.

• Saturday, December 31st 2011 - 03:18 UTC

  Thatcher was warned about risks of Navy cuts a year before the Falklands conflict

  

  Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was warned about the risks in slashing Britain's navy, a year before the 1982 Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, secret files released Friday showed.

• Friday, December 30th 2011 - 21:10 UTC

  Rockhopper completes sidetracking of its latest well in Falklands’ waters

  

  Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas group working in the Falkland Islands announced on Friday it has completed coring and logging operations on a sidetrack of its latest well in the North Falkland Basin

• Friday, December 30th 2011 - 06:36 UTC

  Uruguay suggests changing to the red ensign for Falklands’ vessels to operate in Montevideo

  

  No changes are needed in current legislation to bar vessels flying the Malvinas flag from entering Uruguayan ports, but Uruguay also speculates that if the vessels change to the English flag there will be no problems, according to a report from the Foreign Affairs ministry.

• Friday, December 30th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentine ambassador who ignores basic facts on the Falklands takes office in Washington

  

  Ambassador Jorge Argüello arrived Thursday to Washington and immediately began activities as head of the Argentine embassy before the US with a first round of talks with members of his staff, according to a release from the embassy.