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 ...

Credit: United States Air Force photograph by SrA Rebeca M. Luquin. Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their ...

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 ...

The tiny Indian Ocean archipelago has found itself in the middle of an unusual three-way territorial dispute—due in large part to the US-UK joint naval base on the island of Diego Garcia. This week, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maldives ⁠President Mohamed Muizzu has written to UK ⁠Prime Minister Andy Burnham, asking ⁠him to reopen talks over the sovereignty of the ‌Chagos Islands rather than handing over the islands to ...

President Donald Trump excoriated the British government in a Truth Social post on Monday for agreeing to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a strategic military location, to Mauritius. The ...

The revival of the Maldives-Mauritius dispute over the Chagos Islands and the waters around them has significant implications for the strategic interests of the US, UK, and India in the Indian Ocean, ...

“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 ...

Donald Trump has accused the United Kingdom of “stupidity” over its plan to hand over ownership of the Chagos Islands, including the US air base on Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. “Shockingly, our ...