In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

The Israeli military issued fresh evacuation orders early Friday for 35 settlements in southern Lebanon telling residents to ...

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

Britain announced on Thursday, the 3rd of October, that it would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a ...

On Thursday, the British government struck a deal with Mauritius, an island country off East Africa, to hand over a cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos archipelago, ...

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 ...

As part of the deal, the U.K. will retain sovereignty of Diego Garcia for an initial period of 99 years, and will pay ...

The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...