The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean that's home to a ...

The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the ...

A signing ceremony ceding the British Indian Ocean Territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on Thursday was called off at the last moment after Britain's High Court granted an injunction in the ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

SIR KEIR Starmer has agreed a deal signing away sovereignty of the Chagos Islands – costing taxpayers £3.4 billion. The Prime Minister finally concluded negotiations with Mauritius in an ...

A British court has blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, hours hours before the agreement was due to be signed. The U.K. has agreed to hand ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...

The remote chain of more than 60 islands is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean off the tip of India, south of the Maldives. The Chagos Islands have been under British control since 1814 ...

A British court said Thursday that the U.K. can transfer sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, overturning a block that was imposed hours before the agreement was due to be ...

The High Court in London said it would examine Thursday the UK government's deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

“The defendant is to maintain the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom over the British Indian Ocean Territory until further order,” he said. Another court hearing is set for 10:30 a.m. (0930GMT).