Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their ...

Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a ...

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, where there is a joint US ...

Translation: the deal could not get over the line before Donald Trump's inauguration and its future might now be in the ...

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

More than two centuries of British control over the Chagos islands are set to end, with the UK preparing to hand ownership of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. ...

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 ...

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically vital UK-US military base on Diego Garcia has run into difficulties (Alamy/PA) The UK is considering frontloading ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the Chagos islands ... according to people familiar with the matter who ...