Falkland Islands

Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 19:03 UTC
Miliband: Falklands residents have the right to develop their resources “as they see fit”

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said on Tuesday that the people of the Falkland Islands “have a right to develop their natural resources as they see fit”, as he announced on X the British government’s measures to protect companies and individuals from Argentine sanctions.
Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 18:53 UTC
UK Overseas Territories Minister accuses Milei of using the Falklands for electoral ends

British Overseas Territories Minister Uma Kumaran on Tuesday accused Argentine President Javier Milei of a “brazen attempt to use the people of the Falkland Islands as some sort of political prop ahead of Argentina’s elections next year”, in a statement to the House of Commons watched from the gallery by the Chair of the islands’ Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford.
Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 18:45 UTC
London says it will abide by any law of the sea provisional measures as it moves to shield its companies

The British government said on Tuesday that any provisional measures ordered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are binding and that the United Kingdom complies with its international obligations, on the same day Argentina asked that tribunal to halt the Sea Lion oil project in Falklands waters. In parallel, London announced it will use its protection of trading interests legislation to shield British companies from Argentine sanctions.
Tuesday, October 13th 2026 - 09:13 UTC
“Falkland Islanders will is to remain British, and we will uphold it”, PM Burnham told Trump

“In my meeting with President Trump I raised the Falkland Islands and the clear and declared will of the Islanders to remain British”, revealed United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham in an oral statement to the House of Commons this Monday.
Monday, October 12th 2026 - 07:10 UTC
Brexit campaigner Daniel Hannan warns a US shift on the Falklands would wreck the Atlantic alliance

Daniel Hannan, one of the leading strategists of the Brexit campaign and director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has warned in the Washington Examiner that a change in the US position on the Falklands would put the Atlantic alliance at risk. His column responds to one by economists Walter E. Block and Ege Fakkusoglu defending Argentina’s claim to the archipelago.
Monday, October 12th 2026 - 07:04 UTC
BAS researchers uncover chinstrap penguins massive colony decline in Antarctic volcanic island

A remote volcanic island near Antarctica has lost its title of largest penguin colony in the world, as new research reveals massive population declines, igniting fears for species’ survival. Researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have uncovered the loss of over half a million chinstrap penguins from the Antarctic island of Zavodovski in the South Sandwich Islands.
Monday, October 12th 2026 - 06:58 UTC
A Falklands friend: HMS Westminster Type 23 frigate to be scrapped in Turley

It marks the end of an era for a former Royal Navy Type 23 frigate that has served since 1992, and was well known in the Falkland Islands given her recurrent visits a South Atlantic patrol.
Thursday, October 8th 2026 - 08:29 UTC
Why Argentina's Falklands sanctions do not automatically reach Sea Lion's operator

The sanctions Argentina has imposed on companies involved in the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands target specific entities rather than entire corporate groups, so the subsidiary currently operating the field is not automatically covered, according to a legal analysis by specialist site Diplomacy & Law.
Thursday, October 8th 2026 - 08:18 UTC
What could happen when Argentina's Sea Lion ultimatum to the UK expires

The two-week deadline Argentina gave the United Kingdom to halt the Sea Lion oil project in the North Falklands basin expires around October 12. Its expiry will not in itself suspend the project or establish a British breach of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, according to a legal analysis published by specialist site Diplomacy & Law.
Thursday, October 8th 2026 - 08:07 UTC
Stuart Lawrence, for three decades a captain of Britain's Antarctic ships, has died

Captain Stuart Lawrence MBE, who for more than three decades commanded the British Antarctic Survey vessels RRS Bransfield and RRS Ernest Shackleton, has died suddenly, according to the National Coastwatch Institution in Gosport, southern England, where he served as a volunteer watchkeeper.