Tag: United Kingdom

Tuesday, November 10th 2026 - 15:31 UTC
Hamburg hearing opens as Argentina seeks to halt Sea Lion and the UK disputes jurisdiction

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea began hearing Argentina and the United Kingdom in Hamburg on Tuesday over Argentina’s request for provisional measures to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands. Argentina argued that the resources of a disputed continental shelf cannot be exploited unilaterally, while the United Kingdom rejects the tribunal’s competence to rule on what it considers a question of sovereignty.
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Tuesday, November 10th 2026 - 10:48 UTC
UK Defense minister admits Special Forces under mounting pressure and legal scrutiny

Britain’s Defense Secretary Wes Streeting has acknowledged the mounting pressures facing UK Special Forces (UKSF) amid ongoing legal scrutiny, as he attended his first Remembrance Sunday service since taking up the role.
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Tuesday, November 10th 2026 - 10:44 UTC
UK with eyes from space: launches its second military satellite, Titania

Britain has a new pair of eyes in space, with the successful launch of British-built military satellite Titania. The launch – completed last month from California on an Space X rocket– will further help the Armed Forces coordinate their efforts on and above Earth, by improving their ability to observe military activity on Earth from space.
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Tuesday, November 10th 2026 - 03:26 UTC
Princess Anne arrives in the Falklands and will open the new National Sports Complex

Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles III, arrived in the Falklands on Monday with her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, at the start of a visit that will later take her to South Georgia, and among other engagements will formally open the new National Sports Complex in Stanley.
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Thursday, November 5th 2026 - 07:21 UTC
Ibero-American foreign ministers unanimously back Argentina’s Falklands claim

Ibero-American foreign ministers meeting in Madrid unanimously approved a special communiqué backing Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands and calling on Argentina and the United Kingdom to resume negotiations, on the eve of the Hamburg hearing on the Sea Lion oil project.
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Monday, November 2nd 2026 - 00:57 UTC
Argentina’s Sea Lion case could founder on Falklands sovereignty, a legal expert warns

Argentina’s case against the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands “could fall at the first hurdle”: the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which cannot settle territorial sovereignty disputes, according to Australian law of the sea expert Donald R. Rothwell. The tribunal will hold hearings on Argentina’s request on November 10 and 11 in Hamburg.
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Thursday, October 29th 2026 - 01:11 UTC
King Charles begins a Caribbean tour overshadowed by calls for slavery reparations

King Charles III arrived in the Bahamas on Tuesday to begin a nine-day tour of the Caribbean, his first since acceding to the throne in 2022, which will also take him to Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda, where he will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The trip is overshadowed by calls for an official apology and reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Saturday, October 24th 2026 - 08:32 UTC
Burnham tells Trump of the “economic consequences” of Argentina’s Falklands measures

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham set out to US President Donald Trump on Friday “the economic consequences that Argentina’s coercive measures have for the United Kingdom and the United States”, in a phone call focused on the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands, according to a Downing Street statement quoted by the EFE news agency. Burnham reiterated the islanders’ right to develop their natural resources.
Thursday, October 22nd 2026 - 02:24 UTC
A partial win in Hamburg could help Milei in 2027, an analysis suggests

Argentina has slim chances of persuading the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to halt the Sea Lion oil project north of the Falklands by invoking its sovereign rights, but it could secure a partial victory on environmental grounds that would help President Javier Milei ahead of the 2027 election, according to an analysis by an international law academic published on The Conversation.
Thursday, October 22nd 2026 - 00:07 UTC
Milei says Argentina will pursue the Falklands diplomatically: “We do not believe in military solutions”

Argentine President Javier Milei said in Madrid on Wednesday that he is confident of recovering the Falklands through diplomacy and repeated three times that his government “does not believe in military solutions”, amid an escalating dispute with the United Kingdom over the Sea Lion oil project.