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

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 ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

This post tells the fascinating story of two recent and remarkable developments in the decolonization of the Chagos ...

It sparked a long legal dispute, due to the island's unusual status as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), BBC News reports. The UK government had argued that bringing them to ...

What are we getting in return? That has been the question critics of the Government have been asking over surrendering the ...

The UK Government said earlier it had reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, following negotiations which began in 2022 ...

Sir Keir Starmer is to chair his first cabinet meeting today since the announcement that Sue Gray would leave her post as his chief of staff just three months after Labour came to power.

At the heart of this decision is Diego Garcia, a vital US-UK military base in the Indian Ocean that is indispensable ... seeks to increasingly sacrifice British prosperity and its commitment ...

came after the UK announced it was handing sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), which includes Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. The military base, however, will remain on the island.

Although geostrategic interests change throughout history, for many centuries, some alliances have defied the passage of time ...