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

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

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

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

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

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

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

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

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

The Prime Minister says the UK-Mauritius agreement will ‘address the wrongs of the past’. Many Chagossians aren’t so sure ...

Islanders who had to leave their distant Indian Ocean home for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the ...