The Prime Minister said the agreement with Mauritius secures the long-term future of a joint UK-US military base.

Sir Keir Starmer decided to hand over the Chagos Islands out of “sheer political correctness”, Boris Johnson has claimed ...

UK government has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining sovereignty of ...

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached after years of ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago - a ...

Elsewhere, the UK has agreed to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after more than 200 years, but not ...

Liz Truss has deflected blame over the UK’s return of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, accusing Boris Johnson of initiating ...

UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, ...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...