Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their ...
Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal ...
Mark Twain famously stated that God must have built Mauritius first, then replicated Heaven from Mauritius. This beautiful ...
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UK Halts Chagos Islands Deal as US Review Looms The UK government has paused its plans to return the Chagos Islands to ...
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The UK will not sign off on a deal to give up a top secret island to Mauritius until Donald Trump has taken office, Downing ...
The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the Chagos islands, including a key UK-US military base, to the Indian Ocean ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius in order to finalise the ...
Ministers have been urged to prioritise funding the UK’s military over giving more money to Mauritius to resolve the future of the Chagos Islands. The Conservatives raised concerns over reports ...
I have just finished reading Tariq Ali’s excellent book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (Verso, London, 2021). Although with a chronological structure, it is thematic. It places the ...