Tag: United Kingdom

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Falklands' War: Royal Marines cadre clear Top Malo House of Argentine special forces

  

  Forty years ago, British troops were advancing towards Port Stanley in the Falklands – most of them on foot. Standing in the way of the advance was Top Malo House, a property suspected of containing Argentine special forces that sat in a compromising high ground position.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Across the Atlantic from UK to the Falklands, for a first autonomous marine research vessel

  

  Britain's Plymouth Marine Laboratory has commissioned Plymouth-based M Subs Ltd to design and build the autonomous mono-hulled vessel, supported by funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. The vessel-sub Oceanus is scheduled to make its inaugural voyage from the UK to the Falkland Islands, doing marine research along the way without any crew on board.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Crown coin commemorating the Liberation of the Falklands for every child in the Islands

  

  The Falkland Islands Commissioners of Currency and the 40th Anniversary Committee are delighted to announce the issue of a Crown Coin to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth

  

  As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1982 War and honored those who did not return from the South Atlantic.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  PM Johnson wants to go back to pounds and ounces

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weighing a possible return to imperial units of measurement in a post-Brexit move to fully part with the remaining vestiges of the European alliance, it was reported in London. He had already pledged to take this path during his 2019 campaign.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  FTA with China would not make Uruguay dependent, Lacalle tells BBC

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said in an interview with the BBC that in case or reaching a Free Trade Agreement with China, it would not generate dependence, because in his country politics and economics were separate issues.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  The Falklands Conflict – Then and Now

  

  By Harold Briley for MercoPress (London) – The 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict is being commemorated all year with events in the Falkland Islands, the United Kingdom, and Argentina as MercoPress has reported.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  UK/Uruguay joint statement reaffirms strong relationship and commitments

  

  The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP, and the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Dr Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, met on 23 May.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 23:54 UTC

  Lacalle Pou with a green message in London: Uruguay “is among the strongest democracies in the world”

  

  By Graham Bound for MercoPress (London) – Only on the most serene of news-days might a visit to the United Kingdom by the President of Uruguay make headlines in the country’s newspapers and broadcast bulletins. For a little while it actually looked as if there might be just such a benign news environment. But as President Luis Lacalle Pou took his seat at Canning House, the Latin America and Iberia think tank, on Monday evening to deliver a lecture titled “Uruguay, a Reliable Gateway to South America – Opportunities in Green Finance”, he must have known that he had been totally eclipsed by his host, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 20:48 UTC

  Lacalle Pou met with Boris Johnson at Downing Street: find out what they talked about

  

  During his official visit to the United Kingdom, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou visited British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who welcomed him at the door of Downing Street. The meeting lasted approximately one hour.