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

The UK split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

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

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The British government had been working to ratify its agreement with Mauritius before Trump is sworn in next week. But Starmer's ...

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

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago ... is the world’s largest multimedia ...

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.

This archipelago is an extraordinarily ... like a fag-end government and this fractured Chagos deal a metaphor for Starmer’s own Cabinet. The world is becoming more dangerous.

The US and the UK have a very important military base on Diego Garcia within the Chagos archipelago. It’s kept the world safe since 1973. “It’s been under some jeopardy because of potential rulings in ...

Kin Cheung/AP “The discussions revolved around the conditions attached to the agreement between Great Britain and Mauritius on the Chagos Archipelago, particularly Diego Garcia. I explained to ...