A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Donald Trump’s allies have urged him to block Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal amid fears that Iran will have more access to ...

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

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Dame Priti Patel and Richard Tice are among those who have roundly condemned Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius - with the shadow Foreign Secretary claiming the ...

David Lammy is expected to meet Donald Trump's secretary of state in a desperate bid to keep the controversial Chagos Islands deal on track. The UK's Foreign Secretary has reportedly pencilled ...

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Sir Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart have spoken directly for the first time about the Chagos Islands deal. The Prime Minister told Navin Ramgoolam he wants “strong protections” for ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump ...

In stinging rebuke to the PM top Republicans say White House should consign the idea ‘to the shredder for good’ ...