The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that an agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

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

The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, said on Friday the island nation would hold a general ...

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 ...

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 ...

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