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

Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

A British minister has dismissed media claims that the UK's lease payments for the Diego Garcia military base to Mauritius ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

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

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

Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Security analysts are divided over the deal. Some insist it ...

A US Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from the Diego Garcia military base on a strike mission against Afghanistan in 2001 Credit: DoD / AFP Mr Ramful said his country would appoint a UN ambassador ...

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 ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...

An FCDO spokesperson said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty and ongoing ...

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 ...