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.

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a local newspaper, a contentious element of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Navin Ramgoolam, who has been at the heart of negotiations with the UK over the Chagos Islands, was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of conspiracy and money laundering after his surprise general ...

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 is holding off finalizing a Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius until it secures the approval of US President-elect Donald Trump. Negotiations focus on a 99-year lease of Diego Garcia ...

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 ...