Argentina
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:30:00 GMTMilei orders arbitration proceedings against the UK over the Sea Lion project
Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday instructed the foreign ministry and the government's legal teams to launch international arbitration proceedings against the United Kingdom over the development of the Sea Lion oil pro...
Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:09:00 GMTMilei denies a recession and says indicators are "throwing out anything"
Argentine President Javier Milei denied the country is in recession and questioned the reading of statistics showing rising poverty and falling economic activity. "The indicators are throwing out anything," he said on Sunday in...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:33:00 GMTLondon says Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falklands
British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Argentina “lacks the ability” to take the Falkland Islands and that the United Kingdom “has the ability to defend” them, in an interview with the Sunday paper The Sun on Sund...
Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:51:00 GMTThe Telegraph links the Chagos deal to Argentina's Falklands campaign
An opinion column published on Sunday in the British newspaper The Telegraph argues that the decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius served as a signal of weakness that encouraged claims over other...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:26:00 GMTFalklands Assembly responds to Argentina's campaign: “This Assembly remains calm”
The chair of the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly, Jack Ford, said on Thursday during a sitting of the body that there is “nothing new” in the claims made this week, and that the institution “remains calm” and stea...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:00 GMTMilei and Netanyahu discussed the Falklands in his only bilateral in New York
Argentine President Javier Milei met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for about twenty minutes on Thursday at United Nations headquarters, in what was his only bilateral meeting with a head of state or government durin...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:41:00 GMT“The UN has more reason to exist every day”, Uruguay's president said two days after Milei
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi defended the United Nations' relevance and condemned the economic embargo on Cuba before the General Assembly on Thursday, in an address of just under twenty minutes that contrasted with that o...
Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:26:00 GMTPoverty in Argentina rises to 32.3%, ending two years of decline
Poverty in Argentina reached 32.3% of people in the first half of 2026, an increase of 4.1 percentage points on the second half of 2025, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on Thursday. The figure interrupt...
Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:59:00 GMTUK replies to Milei: “not the behaviour we expect of a democracy”
The United Kingdom has asked for a written statement to be placed in the official record of the UN General Assembly in response to Argentine President Javier Milei's address, saying Buenos Aires' conduct over the Falklands “i...
Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:54:00 GMTMilei at the UN: “The Malvinas are a national cause for us”
Argentine President Javier Milei called on the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to act over what he described as unilateral British actions in the Falklands, and accused the organisation of having “decided to look...