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

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

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.

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

The UK has agreed to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius - ...

The British government has been under pressure for decades to hand over the islands but has resisted because of the Diego Garcia base's key role for US operations in the Indian Ocean and Gulf ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

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

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

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

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