The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the Chagos islands, including a key UK-US military base, to the Indian Ocean ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius in order to finalise the ...

The Chagos Islands, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, are seen as strategically important in southeast Asia as America uses the joint UK-US base on Diego Garcia for ships and long-range ...

The UK has not had any discussions with the incoming Trump administration over the crumbling Chagos Islands deal, the defence secretary has admitted, amid growing concerns over the future of the ...

Ministers have been urged to prioritise funding the UK’s military over giving more money to Mauritius to resolve the future of the Chagos Islands. The Conservatives raised concerns over reports ...

Ali’s discussion on imperialism took me back three months to an article published in The Guardian (3 October) by journalist Owen Bowcott: The British colonised Chagos Islands are a remote but ...

There are many reasons for despising Keir Starmer’s botched attempt to sell out our sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, and thereby to prejudice the future of a vital US airbase. The deal he ...

The UK rejected a report that a deal struck with Mauritius to cede sovereignty of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean to the African nation while retaining control of a key military base could ...

Michael Diehl, owner of Freehold Music Center and the man who gave Bruce Springsteen his first guitar lessons, passed away on Dec. 15. He was 97. Diehl, a native of Farmingdale, owned and operated ...

Local veteran actress Lin Meijiao, who turned 61 on Dec 24, said that she had a birthday celebration on her recent flight to Germany on Singapore Airlines (SIA). The one behind the surprise? Her ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.