The popular Argentinian president has no need of nationalistic stunts. The reason may lie partly in her Patagonian roots Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was a young crusading lawyer when she watched anxious military conscripts tramp through the cold and wind of her adopted home town, Rio Gallegos, on their way to invade the Falkland Islands. She was from La Plata, a city near Buenos Aires, and ...

SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Feb 13 (BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS) -- Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno denied rumours that Argentina had requested Chile to join a blockade of the Falklands Islands.

TENSION over the Falklands increased yesterday after Argentina accused Britain of deploying nuclear weapons to the islands.

Racked with guilt that he might have killed an Argentinian pilot in the Falklands War, a TV show made Neil Wilkinson, right, realise he hadn't killed Mariono Velasco, and he spent months hunting him down so he could meet him.

For 25 years, Neil Wilkinson, a Royal Navy Gunner from Leeds, lived with the guilt of shooting down an Argentinian pilot during the Falklands War. Day after day, images of the Douglas A4 Skyhawk jet bursting into a plume of smoke and plunging into the Falklands hills, played on his troubled mind.