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Oil be there.
By Alyssa McDonald Published 25 February 2010 14:28Twenty-eight years after the Falklands war, Argentina and the UK are at loggerheads again, this time over British oil prospecting in the waters around the islands. Argentina argues that the UK is illegally occupying the Falklands -- or the Malvinas, as Argentinians know them.
And to support its claims? It has submitted documents weighing an astonishing 800lbs in total to the United Nations.
Graphic by Jez Burrows
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