Why the U.K. is crying foul over Argentina's semifinal World Cup celebration
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While celebrating their victory over England, Argentine players held a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" — asserting in Spanish that the disputed Falkland Islands, over which the U.K. and Argentina once fought a war, are Argentine.
London is crying foul.