With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

A Labour minister has squirmed under pressure after being questioned about the Government's plans to hand over of the Chagos ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

The UK’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell will discuss a proposed deal over the Chagos Islands with his US counterpart Mike Waltz in Washington this week, according to people familiar with ...

The UK government has dismissed claims by Mauritius’ prime minister that it will pay billions more under a renegotiated ...

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Britain struck a deal in October to hand over the Chagos Islands while retaining control of the base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year lease.

Britain will await approval from Donald Trump before signing a controversial deal on relinquishing control of the Chagos Islands ... the largest atoll in the archipelago and home to the crucial ...

Source close to Mauritian government – which had been holding up the deal – claimed both sides had reached a consensus on the pact The deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is set to be ...

A warning to Britain on Beijing’s ‘Malign Influence’ in Indo-Pacific signals sea change, as Brussels takes a backseat to Asia ...

The UK has agreed to the Mauritian request for a front-loading payment of the lease compensation of 90 million pounds ($110 million) per year as a sweetener to the Chagos islands deal, the Week ...