Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

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 ...

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

Tom Tugendhat has taken a veiled swipe at fellow Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly over his role in the surrender of the ...

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.

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

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

Since 1971, only Diego Garcia has been allowed inhabitants - US military employees - after the UK expelled the Chagossians at ...