The Falklands dispute: What's it got to do with Israel and the US?

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Argentina claims sovereignty over the British territory - and the dispute is extending beyond the South Atlantic Argentina has restated its claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, a small rocky archipelago in the South Atlantic that is owned by the UK. Javier Milei, the far-right president of Argentina, said in a national address on Thursday that the "winds of change" favoured his country’s claim to the islands, and threatened sanctions on oil firms that seek to drill in the territory’s