UK reasserts Falklands sovereignty amid Milei claim and Trump comments

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Britain insisted Friday that the Falkland Islands "are British" after Argentine President Javier Milei suggested the "winds of change" now favoured his country's claim to the archipelago, citing Washington's readiness to reconsider its neutrality in the dispute. The islands' fate returned to the headlines after US President Donald Trump threatened to wade into the dispute, while a British-Israeli oil project near the islands stoked anger in Argentina. FRANCE 24's London correspondent, Bénédicte Paviot, gives an inside look at Downing Street's reaction to these developments.

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