THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

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

More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to ...

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

Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...

Diego Garcia is off-limits to any non-military personnel. This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these ...

A future treaty to that effect will end London's administration of what it currently calls the British Indian Ocean Territory. Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian ...

Mauritius has claimed the archipelago -- renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory -- since its independence in 1968 and has garnered increased international support. In 2019 the International ...

Mauritius has claimed the archipelago - renamed British Indian Ocean Territory - since its independence in 1968 and garnered increasing international support. In 2019, the International Court of ...