Chagos Islands should not be handed over to Mauritius, president of Maldives says in letter to UK's prime minister.

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 ...

Britain has shelved plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after strong opposition from US President Donald Trump who has previously described the move "an act of great stupidity". Prime ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A startled British government ...

After years of negotiations and legal pressure, the UK and the Republic of Mauritius have agreed that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven ...

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” wrote the 19th-century English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play “Richelieu.” Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented ...

LONDON – A startled British government on Tuesday defended its decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the plan, which his ...