Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

The British government was grilled in parliament on Wednesday as it denied claims by Mauritius that a new deal to return the ...

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

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong ...

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

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.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned his British counterpart to beware of China’s “malign influence” in a veiled ...

Kemi Badenoch has claimed the government’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius amounts to an “immoral surrender ...

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

The UK Government argues the agreement will safeguard the future of the US military base on Diego Garcia, given the legality of Britain’s claim to the island was in dispute. But Tories ...

The government announced a deal to hand over the islands to Mauritius in October 2024, which is meant to secure the future of a secretive military base on the island of Diego Garcia. But it is ...

The UK announced in October it would cede sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but maintain control of the base on the largest island Diego Garcia under a 99-year lease. There had ...