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‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina
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Facing a slump in the polls, Argentina’s president is making economic attacks on the islands’ oil industry, and suggesting its key fisheries industry could be next A dozen local people and a uniformed military police officer (“Do you mind if I sit in?”) took their seats at the back of the handsome w
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‘4,000 people minding our own business’: four decades on, Falklands again face a hostile Argentina