Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...
The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...
Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago - a ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Labour's surrender of the Chagos Islands as "total nonsense". Britain is ...
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
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 ...
Mauritius, which is 1,400 miles from the Chagos Islands and never owned them, has brought repeated claims of sovereignty over ...
People who couldn’t find these islands on a map have quickly acquired strong ... this ­country in a profoundly shabby light. The Chagos archipelago lies in the ­middle of the Indian Ocean.