The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military base on Diego Garci.

Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration designated the marine portions of Hawaii’s Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a 582,570 square-mile area in the Pacific Ocean, as ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands has today declared the protection ... marks the establishment of the country’s inaugural national marine sanctuary, encompassing an area of 48,000 square ...

Marshall Islands yesterday declared its first national marine sanctuary, protecting a “pristine” expanse of tropical Pacific Ocean home to deep-sea sharks and green turtles. Like many Pacific islands, ...

SYDNEY, Australia — The Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, which protects a "pristine" expanse of the Pacific Ocean that is home to deep-sea sharks and green ...

The United Kingdom enforces a stringent Marine ... of national security — nor that their behavior will change as a consequence of Britain’s undertaking of such actions. On the contrary, the United ...

For decades, Britain has administered the Chagos Islands with the explicit purpose ... of youth in Bangladesh have never voted in any national election – and asks them why.

The UK must hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... White House national security adviser, have said giving away the islands to Mauritius could help China’s military ambitions in the ...

Britain puts future of the islands on hold amid president-elect’s concerns that agreement could boost China’s influence Donald Trump will rule on the future of the Chagos Islands after his ...

Designating the waters around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands a national marine sanctuary would act as an insurance policy should Trump unilaterally undo the monument protections afforded to the ...

UK will wait until Donald Trumps in inauguration to sign off deal with Chagos Islands Credit ... serious threat” to US national security by handing over the islands to a country allied with ...