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.

The offer to the migrants, by British officials on the island on Tuesday, came after the UK announced it was handing sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), which includes 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 ...

The Chagos islands in the Indian ... British-French wars. By 1965, the Chagos islands remained under United Kingdom sovereignty. When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian Ocean territories ...

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. The main reason for this was ...

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 ...

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 ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — American and British climbers have been rescued after being stranded for three days on a mountain in India’s Himalayan north. Fay Jane Manners from the United Kingdom and ...

Far from remedying a longstanding injustice, it is a filthy deal that rides roughshod over the rights of the Chagossian islanders in the geopolitical interests of British imperialism. The deal is ...

Besides the Indian skull, other remains listed were from Africa, elsewhere in Asia, and South America. The private British auction house, Swan Fine Art, near Oxford, had hoped to sell them for ...