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

Sir Keir Starmer decided to hand over Chagos Islands out of “sheer political correctness”, Boris Johnson has claimed. The ...

The Indian Ocean archipelago had been a British island territory for over half a century, and now returns to neighbouring Mauritius. The deal stipulates that the strategically significant Diego ...

A future treaty to that effect will end London's administration of what it currently calls the British Indian Ocean Territory ... according to Newsweek's map of American and Chinese bases around ...

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 UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

Britain is giving up sovereignty of a remote group of islands in return for securing the long-term future of a strategically important military base. The UK Government said it has reached a political ...

While both the Falklands and Gibraltar have large numbers of Britons, many Chagossians were forced to leave their island in the 1960s during the creation of the British Indian Ocean Territory and ...

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

Tom Tugendhat ’s was to cry “NOT TRUE!”, Alicia Kearns, to shout “Why won’t you meet the Chagossians?” – so often that I ...

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 ... is 34-years-old, was ...

The UK was ceded the territories by the French in 1814. Historically, the ­islands were administered as part of ­Britain’s Mauritius colony. But on ­November 8, 1965, the UK discreetly dismembered the ...