Britain is shelving its plan to hand back the Chagos Islands -- which hosts the strategic Diego Garcia US-UK military base -- ...

Britain indicated Saturday it is shelving plans to return the Chagos Islands -- which hosts the strategic Diego Garcia US-UK ...

LONDON — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the British government said ...

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Thanks to a 60-year-old agreement, the U.K. cannot legally surrender the islands to Mauritius unless the U.S. approves. Up until January 20, the British government was on track to ratify the United ...

A campaigner who wants to keep the Chagos Islands British and is leading efforts to found a settlement on one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands insists this is not a "cheap publicity stunt" but ...

Feb 17 (Reuters) - Four Chagos islanders have landed on one of the Indian Ocean archipelago's atolls to establish what they say will be a permanent settlement, a move they hope will complicate a ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago, has been described by its prime minister as a "victory for international law, for postcolonial justice and above all ...

LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming ...