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

The Eastern Island is now littered with tiny fragments of plastic. The birds die and decay, but the plastic inside them stays forever in the sand -- a layer of man's doing that will never go away.

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 ...

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

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – bu ...

Decades of diplomatic efforts, after the forced deportation of 2,000 Chagos Islanders more than 50 years ago, seemed to be on ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The prime minister has pressed Mauritius on the need for the Chagos Islands deal to allow "strong protections" for the UK-US military base there. Sir Keir Starmer spoke to his Mauritian ...

UK's Starmer Wants 'Strong Protections' for Military Base in Chagos Islands Deal LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...