In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump ...

Conor Dougherty A worker picks coffee berries at a plantation in Anolaima ... under which Britain agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands, a necklace of tropical islands in the Indian Ocean ...

Britain’s sovereignty over the Chagos was not affected by this arrangement, while Mauritian oversight was minimal. In practice, the Policy Exchange report says, far distant islands were “almost ...

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are back in the spotlight as their 2012 plantation wedding controversy re-emerges amid a legal battle with Justin Baldoni. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are once ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A man is dead after a shooting in the Plantation neighborhood near Lyndon in east Louisville Tuesday afternoon. Louisville Police responded to a report of a shooting just ...

Donald Trump’s secretary of state challenged David Lammy over Britain’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands in their first call together, The Telegraph can reveal. Marco Rubio is understood ...

Mauritius urged Britain and the US on Monday to push through a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, suggesting it could help contain China and Iran. Dhananjay Ramful, the foreign minister ...

However, the leaders seem to have been at pains to skirt potential flashpoints during their chat, such as sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, US threats of tariffs on imports, and defence spending.

The end of the uncertainty over his appointment comes as the new US secretary of state Marco Rubio issued a veiled warning to foreign secretary David Lammy over the attempts to hand the Chagos ...

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David Lammy and his new US counterpart Marco Rubio have pledged to 'work together' - but dodged discussing the Chagos Islands deal in their first phone call. The Foreign Secretary and the incoming ...

Is Daylight Saving Time (DST) in effect in British Indian Ocean Territory?