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German and French manufacturers have made offers to build three submarines for Argentina and revamp its drab naval fleet as the country seeks to advance its claim to the Falkland Islands. President Javier Milei previously warned his country would 'recover' the Falklands and told the UN General Assembly in New York that Argentina could be forced to 'take matters into our own hands'. Earlier this month Argentina's military chief said his government wanted three new hunter-killer submarines. And Admiral Marcelo Dalle Nogare, chief of the joint staff of Argentina's armed forces, said Germany and France had both offered to manufacture...

The chief adviser to Argentine President Javier Milei has said Britain is being "colonized by Islam," using the election of a Muslim lawmaker in London to argue that Argentina should reclaim the Falkland Islands. Santiago Caputo, one of Milei's closest political advisers, made the remarks in a social media post that the Argentine president later shared, according to a Guardian report. Caputo cited the election of Sagal Abdi-Wali, a Labour MP who took her oath of allegiance on the Quran, as evidence of what he portrayed as the growing influence of Islam in Britain. Caputo said that Islam's presence in...

NEW YORK (AFP) – A dual US-Lebanese citizen has been extradited from Paraguay and charged with supporting Lebanon's Hezbollah militant force, US officials said Friday. Moussa Ali Hamdan, 38, appeared in court in Philadelphia following his extradition and has been charged with providing "material support to Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization," the federal prosecutor's office in Pennsylvania said in a statement. Hamdan was arrested by Paraguayan authorities June 15 on suspicion of supporting terrorism and was subsequently handed over to US custody. He is accused in the United States on 28 counts including conspiring to supply Hezbollah with proceeds...

British soldiers are training in the Falklands to recapture the islands amid mounting intimidation from Argentina. Around 150 British Paratroopers joined locally trained reservists to "war-game" an amphibious assault followed by close-quarters combat missions across the territory, according to The Times. The six-day training exercise sought to emulate the Operation Sutton landings that repelled the Argentine invasion in May 1982. Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, warned last month that his country could "act swiftly" to "recover" the South Atlantic archipelago, which he has long claimed is "under illegal foreign occupation". He threatened at the United Nations General Assembly in...

The United Nations General Assembly rammed through another non-binding “political declaration” on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response on Tuesday by a lopsided 153–3 vote. The only countries that voted no were the United States, Israel, and Argentina. New Zealand and Paraguay abstained. According to UN News, the declaration calls for stronger international cooperation on pandemic preparedness and welcomes the World Health Organization’s controversial Pandemic Agreement, adopted in May 2025. The declaration is officially nonbinding, meaning it does not itself give the WHO legal authority to impose lockdowns, vaccine mandates, or other public health restrictions on Americans. But the overwhelming vote...

Anger is rising on the Falkland Islands after Argentinian visitors were reportedly caught waving their national flag and political banners that deny British sovereignty, triggering open calls from islanders to bar them altogether. Falkland Islands Television described a sharp increase in such incidents over recent weeks as international attention on the territory has intensified. Some residents have demanded a ban on arrivals from Argentina. Legislative Assembly member Michael Goss addressed the growing fury head-on. He said: “In the community, who have been quite vocal about the fact of wanting to prevent Argentinian visitors coming into the islands, and whilst I...

Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei struck again, this time in a fiery speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, calling the body "useless" and made up of "fatally arrogant parasites." Milei began by commending the U.N.’s founding mission of resolving conflict peacefully and promoting universal freedom and dignity as "noble words." However, he went on to say that "today, regrettably, it is time to acknowledge that, in practice, that sacred covenant has been broken." "That’s to say, it has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as...

Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive1. Trump landed in Dublin this morning and the Irish establishment had spent a week bracing for a disaster that never came. 150 lawyers signed a letter. Protest groups organized. A message got carved into a beach. Here’s what actually happened. 🧵Sep 13, 2026·Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h2. His first stop was President Catherine Connolly, a progressive who has called his Iran campaign “a deliberate assault on international law” and once described him as volatile and a bully. She greeted him with a military honor guard. He called her “terrific.” That’s how it went all day.Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive·17h3. She gave...

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Argentina's rugged Patagonia is drawing increasing interest from investors searching for sites for mega data centers who are enticed by the region's cool temperatures, renewable energy, shale gas and empty stretches of land. As tech giants known as hyperscalers race worldwide to build server farms and run into roadblocks amid anti-data-center campaigns, projects in initial stages in Argentina are ​developing without much public attention. Since Argentines have yet to be impacted by large data centers, the country lacks a backlash against the server farms as in the U.S., where critics say they strain local...

The Argentine government has said that it will file criminal charges against oil company Navitas Petroleum for operating in seas off the Falkland Islands. The move came just days after Argentine President Javier Milei said he would sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. Sovereignty of the archipelago remains disputed between the UK and Argentina more than 40 years after a British military task force ejected Argentine forces which had invaded the territory in 1982. Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, McNeill said that "the decision by the Falkland Islands government...

Why was Argentina once wealthy? What caused Argentina’s economic decline? Is Javier Milei fixing things? Summarise the video This video explores the "Argentine Paradox"—how a nation that was one of the wealthiest in the world at the turn of the 20th century transformed into a cautionary tale of economic decline, hyperinflation, and political instability. Key Highlights: The Golden Age (1880–1914): Driven by massive exports of beef and grain to Britain, alongside heavy foreign investment and European immigration, Argentina boasted the world's highest GDP per capita by 1895 (0:41, 3:02). Structural Fragility: The economy remained overly dependent on agricultural commodities and...

Argentine President Javier Milei is escalating his country's claim to the British-controlled Falkland Islands, pledging to use diplomatic, economic, and legal pressure while announcing sanctions against companies involved in offshore oil projects near the disputed territory. "The islands are ours, they were taken from us, and they are indispensable for Argentina in the coming decades," Milei said Thursday in a national address, reports The Wall Street Journal. "Argentina won't stand by with its arms crossed." Milei, who refers to the archipelago by its Argentine name, the Malvinas, said his government would use all "diplomatic, economic, judicial and legal tools" to...

One thousand days is a long time in politics...When I wrote about Javier Milei’s first 100 days in office, Argentina was embarking on yet another attempt to break free from a cycle that had become painfully familiar: fiscal excess, monetary financing, inflation, capital controls and, eventually, crisis. Markets were optimistic, but they had been optimistic before. Argentina has a habit of disappointing even its most enthusiastic supporters.At the time, Milei inherited an economy in severe distress alongside a reform agenda that many viewed as politically impossible to implement. Today, as Argentina approaches the 1,000-day mark of his presidency, investors can...

The US recognises Britain's administration of the Falkland Islands but remains neutral over the competing sovereignty claims. US President Donald Trump has suggested Washington may not support the United Kingdom in the event of a future conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Speaking to GB News, as reported by the BBC, Trump criticised Britain over its response to the US war with Iran, saying the country had "not been there to help me". He later acknowledged that the US military had not required British assistance. Trump's comments come as Argentine President Javier Milei renews his country's longstanding claim to...

Panamanian authorities have a 1994 bombing’s suspected Iranian-backed Hezbollah mastermind in custody, with a trial ensuing soon. For more than three decades, the mystery of who blew Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 out of the Panama sky, killing all 21 aboard, including 12 top Jewish businessmen and three U.S. citizens, remained unsolved and mostly forgotten by the outside world. The small commuter plane to Panama City exploded July 19, 1994, shortly after takeoff from Colon, leaving only one body in the wreckage, not positively identified for years: a Middle Eastern male thought to have carried the bomb aboard. But now...

How is the Secretary of Agriculture not willing to talk about where Americans are getting their beef from?

Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef from Argentina has been recalled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) determined the shipment had bypassed a required import reinspection. “Corte Argentino USA LLC, located in Aventura, Fla., is recalling approximately 29,628 pounds of raw beef products that were imported from Argentina without the benefit of import reinspection into the United States,” the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The products subject to the recall bear Argentinian establishment number “EST. N° OF. 2025” and shipping mark “26644-AA” The products were distributed to distributors and retailers in Florida and Texas. More from...

While Germany's debt spiral is accelerating ever faster, Argentine President Javier Milei is steering his country in the opposite direction. Germany's statists will soon be left looking foolish once it becomes obvious that the German model has failed. Only contrast reveals one's own mistakes. Javier Milei is the antithesis of Germany's political class, and the comparison could hardly be starker. While Germany continues to expand the state, Argentina is slashing subsidies and radically reducing the size of its public bureaucracy. While Berlin piles up enormous amounts of public debt, Buenos Aires is posting a primary budget surplus. Friedrich Merz believes...

The Embassy of Venezuela in Mexico has been shown, by very different sectors in that country and in Mexico, to be an instrument of the ideological propaganda and political expansion of the personal interests of Hugo Chávez. Observations of interventionism include giving electoral support to the PRD [Democratic Revolutionary Party of Mexico], even "espionage," as well as a presumed importation of high caliber weapons and contacts with the FARC, ETA and Al Qaeda. Mexico City | Tuesday, 15 November 2005 | Vladimir Villegas is a person of Euro-African heritage showing a good sense of humor and charisma. Tall, robust, sporting...

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