Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on British, Mauritian governments to suspend ratification of deal on ...

A U.N. committee on Monday urged Britain and Mauritius not to ratify a deal seeking to settle the future of the Chagos ...

Last week, after six decades of acrimonious legal battles, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Far from remedying a longstanding injustice, it is ...

(Bloomberg) -- Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for another century, while ceding sovereignty over the Chagos ...

LONDON/PORT LOUIS, (REUTERS) – Britain said on October 3 it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military base, ...

The UN committee has now called on the UK and Mauritius to suspend ratification of the treaty and to resume negotiations with ...

A United Nations committee has urged Britain and Mauritius not to ratify a proposed agreement on the future of the Chagos ...

Diego Garcia will soon receive an exponential increase in U.S. air power with the arrival of the B-2 bomber. Deep within the British Indian Ocean Territory lies a small island that has been ...

The Pentagon has sent at least six B-2 bombers – 30% of the US Air Force’s stealth bomber fleet – to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, in what analysts have called a message to Iran as tensions ...

Of the twelve F-15E Strike Eagles that the 336th FS deployed to Kadena Air Base, six were sent to NSF Diego Garcia for three months in response to tensions in the Middle East. The U.S. Air Force’s ...

Because of Location: The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel all aircraft), a naval base (a technically elite base ...