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

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

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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.

Britain and Mauritius said on Monday there had been good progress in talks to finalise a deal over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, including a U.S.-British military base, with London hoping for ...

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The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...