Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...
Fuel tanks sit at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from ...
Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The British government announced the deal over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Thursday. Britain has ruled it for more than 200 years. The government said the deal will allow the ...
For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...
An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
Washington, DC [US], October 3 (ANI): The United States has hailed the historic Chagos archipelago agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius today and hailed how diplomacy can overcome ...
3 (UPI) --The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian ... the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday. World News // 13 hours ago U.S. names ...