Officials from the UK and Mauritius had reportedly been hurrying to finalise the deal before US President-elect Donald Trump ...

International power rivalry is playing out in the Indian Ocean region, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on ...

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, where there is a joint US ...

Britain will consult US President-elect Donald Trump's new administration before finalising a deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a UK government spokesperson said Wednesday.

The Prime Minister was told to abandon his 'dud' deal to handover the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, which will ...

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia and that Mauritius is sovereign over the [Chagos] Archipelago.” The Mauritian PM’s office didn’t respond to Mongabay’s ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing fresh calls to abandon his surrender of the Chagos Islands after the ... to give up sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago is still on track, as it scrambles ...

Cyclone Chido, which struck on Dec. 14 and killed at least 39 people, is inflaming already dangerous tensions over immigration on Mayotte, an archipelago off Africa’s eastern coast. After the ...

The deal to give away the Chagos Islands – a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean – after 200 years of British rule was one of Sir Keir’s first major foreign policy decisions. The ...

Despite there being a major UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago - the UK Prime Minister agreed a deal to give up the islands to Mauritius in October.

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are ... sovereignty to Mauritius over the archipelago but maintain a 99-year ...