The UK government announced last week that it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The agreement ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

The Philippines has welcomed the United Kingdom and Mauritius' joint effort to settle their dispute on Chagos Archipelago in ...

But Mauritius’ leaders have become close with China’s rulers, and the latter “will be delighted” with this transfer of ...

The Labour Government's decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has prompted concerns Sir Keir Starmer may give ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

The archipelago was acquired in the 1960s and a US military base established by displacing the indigenous population to ...

A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...