The Prime Minister said the agreement with Mauritius secures the long-term future of a joint UK-US military base.

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...

Sir Keir Starmer decided to hand over the Chagos Islands out of “sheer political correctness”, Boris Johnson has claimed ...

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached after years of ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Britain announced on Thursday, the 3rd of October, that it would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

On Thursday, the British government struck a deal with Mauritius, an island country off East Africa, to hand over a cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos archipelago, ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, ...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...