A Labour minister has squirmed under pressure after being questioned about the Government's plans to hand over of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell will discuss a proposed deal over the Chagos Islands with his US counterpart Mike Waltz in Washington this week, according to people familiar with ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Mauritius, a China ally, is on course to take control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. But the deal remains on ice until Mr ...

The UK government has dismissed claims by Mauritius’ prime minister that it will pay billions more under a renegotiated ...

Diego Garcia, the largest atoll in the island chain ... in the Indian Ocean amid talks in 2022 on the return of the Chagos Islands and what it could mean for Diego Garcia. Asked about the deal ...

The UK government has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius to finalise the draft deal over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands ... the main atoll in the Indian Ocean ...

The UK government had in recent weeks been optimistic about securing an agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands before ... the largest atoll in the archipelago and home to the crucial ...

Britain will await approval from Donald Trump before signing a controversial deal on relinquishing control of the Chagos Islands ... the largest atoll in the archipelago and home to the crucial ...

A warning to Britain on Beijing’s ‘Malign Influence’ in Indo-Pacific signals sea change, as Brussels takes a backseat to Asia ...