A small group of leftist protesters have burned a British flag outside the headquarters of Argentina’s oil company, saying YPF should stop using oil tankers that fly flags from the British commonwealth.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc have backed Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.

An oil field discovery in the Falklands sparked hopes today that the area could contain as much untapped fossil fuel as the North Sea.

Tensions between the UK and Argentina mounted today as a British oil rig began drilling off the Falkland Islands.

Argentina staked a claim to a vast area of seabed stretching from South America to the Antarctic in its latest bid for control of the South Atlantic in a historic dispute with the United Kingdom.

TWENTY-FIVE years after hostilities ceased, Argentina is opening a new front in the Falklands War.

A British warship anchored in Argentina for the first time since the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands 23 years ago, meeting a chilly reception in its homage to those who died in the conflict.

JUST the other day I was in a small airport in a remote part of Argentina. On the wall was a prominent tribute to the local pilots who died during the 1983 effort to “reclaim the Malvinas”.

The United Nations committee on decolonisation has called on Britain and Argentina to resume negotiations over the Falkland Islands, 20 years after the war.

Juan Sebastian Veron has raised the temperature ahead of Argentina’s World Cup clash with England in Sapporo on Friday by raising the spectre of the Falklands War.