Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...
In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years.
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
UN maps now show the territory as Mauritian ... has clearly stated that Mauritius is the sovereign power over the Chagos archipelago," said Jagdish Koonjul, Mauritius's UN ambassador.
Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago - a ...
A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...
The British government struck a deal with Mauritius to hand over the cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as ...
The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Labour's surrender of the Chagos Islands as "total nonsense". Britain is ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.