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The Falkland Islands ( or ; ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located more than east of the coast of mainland South America.
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The Argentine Olympic Committee has responded for the first time to an advertisement on state-run TV that links a dispute with Britain about the Falkland Islands to the London Games.
Olympic committee president Gerardo Werthein said in a statement Tuesday that using the games as a platform for "political gestures" is not acceptable but defends the right to freedom of speech for his athletes.The IOC denounced the ad last week, saying the Olympics should "not be a forum" for political issues.In her first public statement on the issue, Argentina President Cristina Fernandez defended the ad on Monday and said "creativity cannot be censored."The ad first ran last week and is still being shown on state-run TV....Argentine state-run television has again broadcast an ad linking the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, opening itself to further c...
Argentine state-run television has again broadcast an ad linking the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, opening itself to further c...
Sebastian Coe has warned against politicizing the London Olympics, a day after the International Olympic Committee criticized an Argentine TV ad that linked the game...
An Argentine TV ad linking the London Olympics to a dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands was broadcast again despite an IOC warning that the games should n...
The field hockey player involved in filming a controversial TV ad linking the London Olympics to Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands has been ...
Declaring that a new environment for cooperation exists in the Americas, President Barack Obama sought to convince U.S. business Saturday that he's serious about exp...
A summit of 33 Western Hemisphere leader opened Saturday with the United States and Canada standing firm, but alone, against everyone else's insistence that Cuba joi...
STANLEY, Falkland Islands -- The William-and-Kate refrigerator magnets in the gift shops are about as close as most people here have come to spotting the future king...
Barack Obama will be on the defensive heading into this weekend's Summit of the Americas, with the U.S. stubbornly clinging to positions opposed by most Latin Americ...
Thousands of President Hugo Chavez's supporters celebrated the 10th anniversary of his return to power following a failed coup in 2002, filling an avenue outside the...
The Duchess of Cambridge gave her first solo public speech Monday at a charity where she is a patron.Catherine was given a warm round of applause by workers at the T...
Venezuela strongly criticized what it called Britain's threats against Argentina as its South American ally intensifies its claim to the Falkland Islands.Venezuelan ...
The IOC criticized an Argentine TV ad Friday that links the London Olympics to Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands, calling it a blatant attem...
The Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday is celebrating the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II by issuing 20 million pounds ($31 million) worth of 10-pound notes wit...
LONDON -- Prince William will be deployed on a six-week tour of duty to the Falkland Islands early next year, in what will be the 30th anniversary of the Falklands w...
Venezuela has criticized the U.S. government for its stance on Argentina's long-standing dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.At the Summit of the Americas...
A summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands."There...
The Falkland Islands came under further criticism Tuesday for refusing to allow a cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach flu to dock, as passengers complained about...
Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock...
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