In a humiliating climb down, Keir Starmer has reportedly suspended his foolhardy plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to ...

The British government’s negotiation with the Republic of Mauritius to cede the Chagos Islands has been a mess. At time of ...

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 ...

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

Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal ...

And media reports from the Indian Ocean suggest a 'special ... was going to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which has been a British overseas territory for more than 200 years.

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

UK Halts Chagos Islands Deal as US Review Looms The UK government has paused its plans to return the Chagos Islands to ...

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...

when the U.K. carved it into the British Indian Ocean Territory. Mauritius gained independence in 1968, but the U.K. retained control of Chagos, allowing the U.S. to establish a military base on ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.