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Now acting judge of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court, Margaret Obi, has ruled that it was unlawful for the UK to detain the asylum seekers on the island. The UK government ...

(Gendarmerie Nationale via AP) CAPE TOWN, South Africa — France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

Thousands were feared dead Monday after Cyclone Chido tore through Mayotte, a French Indian Ocean territory, cutting off swaths of the population. Wooden beams from collapsed buildings littered ...

Rescue workers were rushing Monday to reach the remote French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean after the archipelago was devastated by Cyclone Chido, the worst storm to hit the region in ...

An aerial view shows an electric generator barge that was swept inland during the 2004 tsunami. Survivors and victims' relatives will next week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean ...

Rescuers were racing against time on Monday to reach survivors after a powerful cyclone hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, laying to waste the territory’s many shantytowns.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region ...