Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US and UK built a military base on Diego Garcia, one of the islands that make up the Chagos Islands, in 1971. - Reuters Donald ...

In a humiliating climb down, Keir Starmer has reportedly suspended his foolhardy plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until the new Trump administration takes office. This is welcome news ...

The British government’s proposed deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to an unrelated African country would be one of the most detrimental and self-inflicted wounds in the history of global foreign ...

Mauritius officials have said they will “spare no effort” in decolonising the Chagos Islands shortly after it emerged that the UK government had shelved plans to hand over the islands. Despite ...

John R. Bolton was ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and national security adviser under President Donald Trump. In the Biden administration’s waning months, U.S.

In a tatty office in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, Olivier Bancoult points to the tricolour flag on the wall. It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, hosts a ...

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During the planning for President Trump’s latest strike on Iran, Britain refused to allow the United States to launch air attacks from the U.S.-U.K. base at Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean ...