David Cameron has insisted Britain will fight to keep the Falklands as Argentina ramps up the rhetoric against UK sovereignty.The prime minister said the government's resolve was "extremely strong" and stressed the islands' military defences, days after Argentina's president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner accused Britain of colonialism.Fernández claimed her country had been forcibly stripped of "Las Malvinas" in an open letter to Cameron, which was printed as an advertisement in the Guardian Read more [...]

ARGIE leader Cristina Kirchner is hiring a jet from a British firm after she was forced to ground her own luxury plane in a debt row. She will splash out £622,000 on a Bombardier Global Express jet from charter company Chapman Freeborn for her tour of Asia. The news is a massive embarrassment for the president — who regularly rants against British sovereignty of the Falklands and whose government has called for a boycott of British business. It comes days after The Sun Read more [...]

ANGRY Argies burn a British flag in Buenos Aires yesterday after The Sun warned: “Hands off the Falklands.” A seething mob took to the streets to set fire to the Union Jacks — and copies of our full-page advert in a local paper. Armchair warriors flooded websites with outraged comments, branding the British people “pirates and murderers”. But other Argentinians BACKED our stance, saying: “We should leave the islands alone.” The Sun took out the advert in the Buenos Read more [...]

The letter sparked immediate indignation in Britain’s halls of power, with the notoriously zealous British tabloids joining the fray Friday. Rupert Murdoch’s Sun tabloid took out an advertisement in the Buenos Aires Herald, warning Argentines to keep their “hands off” the islands.The latest exchanges underscore the extent to which the sparsely populated islands, which cost the lives of more than 900 people in the 1982 Falklands War, remains a hot-button issue on both sides of the Atlantic.“The Read more [...]

The Sun has taken out an advertisement in an Argentinian newspaper reasserting British sovereignty over the Falklands, after Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, published an advert in the UK press accusing Britain of colonialism.The Sun advert, published in the English-language Buenos Aires Herald, which has a circulation of more than 20,000, tells the Argentinians to keep their "hands off" the islands, which the two countries fought a war over 30 years ago.It came after Read more [...]

“180 years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century colonialism, Argentina was forcibly stripped of the Malvinas Islands, which are situated 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles) away from London,” she says in the letter, copied to U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.Argentina’s U.N. Ambassador María Cristina Perceval delivered the letter Thursday to U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson. “The secretary-general’s offer of good offices ... remains to resolve Read more [...]

Argentina is the world’s top exporter of soccer players, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in profits as thousands of players are transferred from team to team each year. But Echegaray says the players themselves are often cheated by shadowy businessmen hiding their cash, and their clubs are put at a major disadvantage as powerful financial interests control the cash that drives the game.His solution: Force people who invest in the rights to players in Argentina’s first- and second-division Read more [...]

The renewed demand by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for the Falklands to be handed back to Argentina elicited a defiant response from the UK and Falkland governments , with David Cameron vowing to do everything he could to protect the islanders' desire to remain British.The prime minister rejected Fernández's call to restore the Falklands's "territorial integrity" by returning them to Argentina. The islanders are due to vote in a referendum in March that is expected to give overwhelming Read more [...]

Every fresh scrap between Britain and Argentina about the Falkland Islands can be filed under the rubric "here we go again". There is a depressing predictability about the outcome – nothing will change. Argentina's president launched an attack on British colonialism, claiming the islands were "forcibly stripped" from Argentina 180 years ago (the incident in 1833 boiled down to a standoff between two ships, one bigger than the other, and as the Argentinian schooner was manned by a large number Read more [...]

New negotiations on the Falklands are apparently ruled out because their future "can only be decided by the islanders in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination" (Hand back the Falklands, Argentina tells Cameron, 3 January).Can we expect the government to follow the same principle on the rights of the Chagos people in relation to their Diego Garcia home? They are British citizens, roughly the same number as inhabit the Falkland Islands, and had lived in Diego Garcia since the Read more [...]