The US may be powerful enough to ignore international law with little short-term consequences, but the UK is not.

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The plan to give Mauritius formal control of the islands, home to a U.S.-British military base, was called “an act of great ...

One of Michel Mandarin's last memories of his hometown was the U.S. government throwing all the dogs into a gas chamber. In 1967, the British authorities declared that people of the Chagos Islands ...

Iranian ballistic missiles fired at Diego Garcia on March 21 did not simply cross a geographic threshold; it crossed an important strategic one. For years, Iran’s threat calculus has been framed ...

China is conducting a vast undersea mapping and monitoring operation across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, building detailed knowledge of marine conditions that naval experts say would be ...

China, which was the largest holder of U.S. government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008, driven by changing trade patterns, geopolitical concerns, and ...

U.K. minister Steve Reed says Iran's missiles failed to reach the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean. Iran targeted Diego Garcia with a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile, Israel's ...

LONDON — Iran has fired missiles at the joint U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, suggesting it is capable of longer-distance attacks than previously known. Subscribe to read ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) has condemned Iran’s "reckless attacks across the region", calling them a "threat to ...

The attempted strike on Diego Garcia would mark a major escalation, highlighting Tehran’s apparent ability to target the strategic U.S.-UK base deep in the Indian Ocean and potentially put parts of ...