Sir Keir Starmer sought US president’s blessing for lease that will affect joint military base on Diego Garcia ...

Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam is urging U.S. President Donald Trump to review a recent sovereignty deal with ...

Mauritius hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will review a U.K.-Mauritius agreement regarding the Chagos Islands, which house ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said that figures being reported are ‘not correct’, but could not say what the final cost of ...

The Chagos Islands are a tiny group of some 60 islands ... in 1965 and then leased the base to the United States. The base's location allows the US to more easily conduct military operations ...

The U.K. agreed last October to hand Mauritius sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago ... wants all Chagossians to have the right to return to the islands, regardless of their current location and ...

Its central location allows for rapid deployment ... The history of the Chagos Islands, in which Diego Garcia is located, is one of colonialism. The Chagos Islands had been a possession ...

An international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands used to be a Chinese government official who supported ...