Chagos islanders dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

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Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conservative Post editor Claire Bullivant, one of the letter’s organisers and signatories, told The Independent that the campaign had wider significance beyond the row over the Chagos Islands.

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control ... a series of quakes kept shaking the famous Greek tourist island. Legalcategory Trial of man in Salman ...

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 ...

Mauritius, which gained independence from the UK in 1968, claimed the Chagos islands as its own territory despite the fact that they are nearer to the Maldives and the Seychelles. Mr Sands helped ...

Surrendering sovereignty over the Chagos Islands would be an irresponsible act, which would put our strategic interests – and the interests of our closest allies – in danger Lord West of ...