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

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

The deal allows Britain to retain control of the strategically imperative base on Diego Garcia, under a 99-year lease.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer expected to attend virtual signing ceremony with representatives from Mauritian government ...

The United Kingdom agreed to cede its control over the Chagos Islands to the Republic of Mauritius in an agreement signed ...

More than two centuries of British control over the Chagos islands are coming to an end after the UK government agreed to cede ownership of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius and pay an annual ...

Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which had been administered alongside the archipelago until 1965. As part of the deal to hand back ...

The British government’s plans to hand control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius are ...

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The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been barred from signing it by a British judge ...

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