The winds of change that Macmillan spoke of were real, and, as an American statesman famously observed many decades ago, by the 1960s Britain had lost its empire and not yet found a role.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a judge overturned a last-minute legal challenge.

By Rob Picheta, CNN London (CNN) — The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the controversial, multi-billion pound move ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a ...