Falkland Islands

• Thursday, November 29th 2018 - 07:31 UTC

  Falklands' waters micro-plastics pollution comparable to areas of UK

  

  The first study to investigate micro-plastics around Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands – two of the most remote locations in the South Atlantic Ocean – has found levels of contamination comparable with the waters around the UK.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 20:11 UTC

  Air link from Cordoba to the Falklands confirmed by UK and Argentina

  

  The governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom reached an understanding to establish a second commercial air link to the islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) confirmed on Tuesday followed by an official statement of the embassy of Argentina in the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

  Succesful identification of the 105 Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat Claudio Avruj announced on Monday the identification of the 105th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands under a gravestone that read “Argentine soldier, only known upon God”. Claudio Alfredo Bastida was a 19-year-old conscript who died in the Mount Longdon battle on 12 June 1982.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas air link and Cordoba stop over underlines “the historic reconciliation of UK and Argentina”

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said that this week's G20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires not only will it be historic since for the first time a meeting of such significance is taking place in South America, but also because of the symbolic reconciliation and constructive attitude between Argentina and the United Kingdom referred to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 01:48 UTC

  Iconic HMS Sheffield, will become Royal Navy's fifth state of the art Type 26 frigate

  

  UK Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced the name of a future world-beating British warship as HMS Sheffield. Built on centuries of history, the state-of-the-art submarine hunter will be the fourth ship to carry the name and will be Britain’s fifth state-of-the-art Type 26 frigate.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  May and Macri will announce the Falklands' second commercial flight with a stopover in Cordoba, insists Ambito

  

  The Argentine financial newspaper Ambito Financiero is insisting with its version of the agreement reached on the second commercial flight of the Falklands to the region, which is anticipates will be formally announced by president Mauricio Macri and UK Prime Minister Theresa May when they meet next 30 November in Buenos Aires in the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Royal Navy retains patrol ships for Fishery Protection in post Brexit scenario

  

  UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has secured the protection of British home waters by announcing he will retain three of the Royal Navy’s patrol ships. The future of the Batch 1 Offshore Patrols Vessels (OPVs), HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn, which currently support the Fishery Protection Squadron, have been secured ahead of the Brexit negotiations for Britain to withdraw from the European Union.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 07:41 UTC

  Argentina announces the name of its 104 combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina announced the full name of the 104th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin. According to the Human Rights Secretariat, conscript Fabricio Edgar Carrascull, born in Cordoba province was 18 when he died at the Goose Green battle on 28 May 1982.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 04:31 UTC

  Falklands' Pebble Island turns into death trap for 56 beached pilot whales

  

  Fifty six whales died after beaching at Pebble Island approximately five days before they were spotted on November 10 by a Falkland Islands Government Air Service (FIGAS) pilot.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 03:57 UTC

  Falklands says a decision on a second flight stopover in Argentina “has yet to be made”

  

  * MLA Elsby anticipates the public will be engaged on the final proposal. A final decision on where in Argentina a second commercial flight from the Falklands to a third country in the region will land “has yet to be made,” assured Member of Legislative Assembly Barry Elsby on Thursday.