All three vessels were underway in the Eastern Indian Ocean this week, potentially adding to India's already uneasy relationship with China. The two nuclear-armed countries have had multiple armed ...

UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD The .io country code top-level ...

Before installing a warning system, experts need to identify and map areas of risk ... expenditure for all 37 or so countries that have coastline on the Indian Ocean. While the Indian system ...

In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

The Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, once bastions of U.S. naval supremacy, are slowly transforming into the Achilles’ heel of ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...

There are many countries around the world said to resemble animals from rabbits to rhinos, with one in Africa appearing to ...

a matching .io (Indian Ocean) country code domain in 1997 Fuel tanks at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

The Israeli Prime Minister said that the ‘Curse’ map’ shows an arc of terror Iran has created and ‘Blessing’ map shows Israel ...