On the second day of the row over the Chagos Islands, Sir Keir Starmer has defended the government’s decision to hand over ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The U.K. agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

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

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

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

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.

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

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...