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

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

The Indian Ocean archipelago had been a British island territory for over half a century, and now returns to neighbouring Mauritius. The deal stipulates that the strategically significant Diego ...

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 ...

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

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

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

The UK has offered nearly 40 stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

However, London retained sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago with its roughly 1,000 small and tiny islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territories ... is 34-years-old, was ...

The government of Mauritius has long argued that it was illegally forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its ...

Their account was supported by maps, diary entries and GPS data ... due to the island's unusual status as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), BBC News reports.