Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their ...

Mauritius is poised to sign off a deal to take control of the Chagos Islands from ... to hand over control of the archipelago - formally the British Indian Ocean Territory - with just a week ...

Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal ...

The UK announced in October it would cede sovereignty of the archipelago in the ... The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius ...

UK Halts Chagos Islands Deal as US Review Looms The UK government has paused its plans to return the Chagos Islands to ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.