Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.

Donald Trump will rule on the future of the Chagos Islands after his team directly intervened in the British Government’s deal. The Telegraph understands that Mr Trump’s team demanded Britain ...

The UK’s government on Wednesday confirmed that it would not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming ...

The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted. The British government ...

UK will wait until Donald Trumps in inauguration to sign off deal with Chagos Islands Credit: AP/ PA The UK will not sign off a deal to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since agreeing it last October, Britain’s Labour government has been firefighting opposition to its deal ...

The UK has confirmed it will not finalise a deal to transfer control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s new U.S. administration is in place and consulted.

Britain struck a deal in October to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the ...

LONDON — Britain's government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

"There's no point denying it's a mess", a backbench Labour MP tells me, as the latest twist in the Chagos deal unfolds. On a day when we expected the Mauritian government to rubber stamp the plans ...