A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...

The UK has made a foolish trade of hard power for soft, which will quickly evaporate, and gained nothing in return.

This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these restrictions, it is very rare that every day people can visit the islands.

Senior officials told incoming Labour government that refusing to sign away the islands would jeopardise ‘special ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to ...

Last Thursday, Vanessa Calou got a phone call from a number in Mauritius. “They said, ‘I think Mauritius got Chagos’, and I ...

The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on Prime Minister ...

Mr Lammy updated Parliament on the announcement about the islands, known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which was made while the Commons was not sitting during the break for party ...

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