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Long ignored amid a swirl of geostrategic interests, people forced into exile from the Chagos Archipelago are fighting to go ...

Police are hunting for two prisoners mistakenly released from Wandsworth in the past week A 24-year-old Algerian, Brahim ...

According to the Daily Telegraph, some within Labour have been left fearing the worst. An unnamed Labour MP tells the paper ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos islands deal has been delayed after the threat of defeat in the Lords. Ministers have been forced ...

The Government says it will hand over the Chagos Islands including a military base, and then spend £34 billion to lease it back ...

In written submissions, Philip Rule KC, for the Chagossians, said that the Foreign Office had made “unlawful decisions or omissions”, including failing to “adequately and lawfully” consult Chagossians ...

In 2024, the United Kingdom agreed to possibly one of the worst real estate deals in recorded history. It agreed to give Mauritius, a small country in the Indian Ocean, ownership of the Chagos Islands ...

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 ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile, issuing the message during an audience Saturday with refugees from Chagos, the Indian Ocean ...

President of Chagos Refugees Group Louis Olivier Bancoult in the Vatican on Aug. 23, 2025. (Credit: Philippe Sand via AP.) ROME — Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the right of people to return to their ...