The UK and Mauritius on May 22, 2025, announced they had agreed a treaty concerning the Chagos Archipelago. Over 50 years ago, the UK and US forcibly displaced the entire Chagossian Indigenous people, ...

UN says it welcomes the signing of the agreement between UK government and the government of the Republic of Mauritius ...

The British government has signed a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands’ sovereignty to Mauritius. But it effectively blocks the return of hundreds of islanders who were born there. They were ...

Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

Some Chagos Islands-born protesters said the deal jeopardizes the limited the rights they have to visit the islands, including to tend the graves of relatives.

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail died of unknown causes Tuesday after he was found unresponsive in his cell. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death of Richard ...

LINCOLN — A controversial amendment to a teacher retirement bill appears unlikely to move forward this session after education officials expressed mixed feelings about it at a public hearing ...

Four people between the ages of 4 and 18 were killed when a vehicle drove into a child care facility in the Sangamon County village of Chatham, authorities said. Chatham Police Deputy Chief ...