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

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

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

The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years.

A country in Africa owns a bizarre strip of land that looks like a cartographer's hand slipped when they were drawing the map ...

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

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...