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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There’s no exclusivity. We are open.” Island territories: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cocos Islands, Christmas Island, French Southern and Antarctic ...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Among the more bizarre tariffs were a 10 percent levy against the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, and an identical tariff on British Indian Ocean Territory.

On the list was the British Indian Ocean Territory, a collection of mostly uninhabited islands with no permanent population — with the exception of the joint U.S. and United Kingdom military ...

Another target of 10% tariffs is the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), an overseas territory of the U.K. established in 1965. It is an archipelago of islands in the Indian Ocean, about ...

“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).