U.K. hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to secure US base
The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...
Adelaide Now9d
‘Weak, weak, weak’: Strange political furore erupts as Britain cedes sovereignty over remote islands
The Chagos Islands are a tiny archipelago at the arrow point here ... Diego Garcia, which houses the military base. Picture: USGS/NASA Landsat data/Orbital Horizon Gallo Images/Getty Images ...
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UK gives up top secret Chagos Islands – why are they so mysterious?
The Chagos Islands has been used by the UK and US as an important military base (Picture: History/Universal Images Group) The UK has given up a top secret ... of the archipelago and the British ...
The Independent9d
A tiny ocean island is home to a restricted US-UK military base. The secret just got out
Fuel tanks sit at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site ... by the US Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia.
The Chagos agreement explained
In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...
United Kingdom reaches deal to cede Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
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Fact check: US leaders have welcomed Chagos Archipelago deal
A senior politician has claimed the UK’s American allies “will be furious” after the Government reached a deal with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Archipelago. On October 3 the ...