Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

Exclusive: The blame game for who was responsible for the UK handing over the key Indian Ocean islands has now dragged in ...

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

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

The United Kingdom agrees to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. India and the United States support ...