The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

A British court has blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, hours hours before ...

Recently, a UK court stepped in at the last moment to pause a significant deal that would have transferred control of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands, a remote ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United ...

France’s pledge to confront its colonial legacy is being tested in Madagascar, where historic grievances are clashing with modern geopolitics over the Scattered Islands – tiny, uninhabited ...

Given the realities of its middle power status, the UK government’s agreement on Chagos should be judged as a successful ...

one of the Caribbean archipelago’s three main islands. The Virgins were purchased from Denmark by the U.S. government at the height of the First World War in order to stop them being used as a ...

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

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands ...