Mauritius could 'rent' islands near crucial Chagos military base to China and spark Cuban Missile crisis style confrontation unless UK hands over sovereignty and £9bn…
Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no ...
Chagos deal chaos as Mauritius could rent nearby islands to China
The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...
Chagos Islands judge is ex-China official who backed Putin's attack on Ukraine
The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.
Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine
In 2019, as vice-president of the ICJ, Xue Hanqin ruled that the UK should give islands to Mauritius ‘as rapidly as possible’ ...
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Navy trains with allies in South China Sea amid uptick in Indo-Pacific activity
The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold joined its Australian and British counterparts for a two-day exercise in the South ...
Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine; says Europe must be responsible for country’s security
The U.S. defense secretary also said that a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders, before Russia invaded Crimea and eastern ...
US defence secretary signals dramatic shift in American military policy away from Europe, warning allies about 'stark strategic realities'
The US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth tells allies that, with Donald Trump as US president, it is "unrealistic" to think ...
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China's 'megaplex': Military base ten times the Pentagon's size
Agents of the American intelligence services have identified a remarkably sizeable military infrastructure in China through ...
Trump prepares matching tariffs on trade partners, signalling economic showdown
The US leader’s moves to upset the world trade system will almost certainly trigger retaliatory measures by trading partners.
What are Ukraine's critical minerals and why does Trump want them?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss a critical minerals deal as Ukraine vies to win the backing of U.S. President Donald Trump at a perilous diplomatic ...
Thailand: The first same-sex marriages in Asia's LGBT haven
Thailand's long-awaited same-sex marriage law came into effect, with more than a thousand couples thought to have officially tied the knot already. The legislation comes after years of campaigning, ...