Tag: Falkland War

• Saturday, September 9th 2023 - 12:59 UTC

  Falklands' pilgrimage of six Argentine fallen gendarmes next of kin

  

  This Saturday weather allowing a group of Argentine next of kin of soldiers fallen during the Falkland/Malvinas conflict should be arriving at MPA and the Falklands. The trip according to Argentine sources was coordinated by the Argentine Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights,

• Wednesday, August 23rd 2023 - 07:43 UTC

  “God bless you Harold”, The Times obituary

  

  Harold Briley's obituary by The Times, published Tuesday, August 22, 2023. - Reporter who broadcast the first news of Argentina’s invasion of the Falklands in 1982 and later campaigned for the Islanders’ rights.

• Monday, August 7th 2023 - 08:32 UTC

  London considering Ascension island as plan B, if the scheme to send irregular migrants to Rwanda fails

  

  The UK Government is reportedly considering reviving plans to fly people who arrive in the UK by unauthorized means to Ascension Island. Multiple reports say ministers and officials are considering the island as a “plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails. plan B” if the scheme to send migrants to Rwanda fails.

• Wednesday, June 28th 2023 - 18:42 UTC

  Argentina grants funds for Phase 3 of identification of combatants fallen in Falklands

  

  Argentina has announced it will finance 130 million Pesos (some US$ 250,000 at the current free market exchange rate) for Project EAAF 2023 which refers to Phase 3 of the Humanitarian Project for the identification of fallen combatants buried in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 26th 2023 - 15:52 UTC

  Harold Briley, 1931 to 2023

  

  Tributes have been pouring in for Harold Briley, who passed away in the small hours of 26 June 2023, surrounded by his family, after a long battle with cancer, which he bore bravely.

• Tuesday, February 7th 2023 - 18:01 UTC

  Falkland Islanders Honour Veteran BBC Journalist

  

  By Graham Bound, London - HAROLD Briley, a BBC World Service journalist who reported from Buenos Aires throughout the 1982 Falklands War, has received a special and rare honour from the government of the Islands.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 12:20 UTC

  Falklands Plaque unveiled at Portland to honor dockworkers involved in readying the Task Force

  

  A Falklands Memorial Plaque was unveiled at Portland Port by South Dorset MP Richard Drax, commemorating the work carried out by dockyard employees over a few dramatic weeks in the spring of 1982.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 11:53 UTC

  Francis kisses and blesses an Argentine flag and received soil from the Falklands cemetery

  

  Pope Francis on Wednesday received the head of the Buenos Aires Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, who visited him at his official residence in the Vatican, and as a gift gave him some soil from the Falklands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Behind the lines in 1982: A story of journalistic bravery

  

  By Graham Bound (Stanley, FI) – Days were short during the occupation of 1982, and everything in Stanley seemed hostile and frightening. Our situation was hardly any safer when the watery winter sun went down and the Argentine-imposed curfew forced us indoors. But within whichever substantial building one chose to shelter, with windows blacked out and peat stoves glowing, there was comfort and at least the perception of safety.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  1982: UK forces downed Argentine Pucara with a Stinger missile during Falklands San Carlos' landing

  

  In 1982, Britain's Special Air Service troops were the first to fire a Stinger missile in combat, during the Falkland Islands conflict. They had been drafted in to distract Argentine forces from the San Carlos landings, carried out by British soldiers in response to Argentina's invasion of the Islands in April 1982.