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Factbox-Key Facts About Chagos Islands Deal Signed by UK and Mauritius
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction was overturned, securing itself a lease for the U.S.-UK Diego Garcia air base for the next century.
Guillermo Carmona, Argentina's former Secretary for the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic, said Buenos Aires can use ...
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 Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. France ceded ...
Several American fighter jets have been deployed to a secretive UK - US base in the Indian Ocean to protect assets there, ...
The recent deal between UK and the Republic of Mauritius on sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago, and the future of their people, has triggered the aspirations of nationalist groups in Spain ...
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