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

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius ... In 2010, it became the world's largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing.

Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago ... planet. Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world ...

concerning the legality of its Chagos marine protected area; at the International Court of Justice in 2019, when the World Court found that Mauritius was sovereign over the archipelago; and at the UN ...

The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years.

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

The United States welcomes today’s historic agreement between the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the status of the Chagos Archipelago ... Use The World Health Organization ...

The Mauritian government has long argued that the Chagos ... Archipelago as rapidly as possible”. While Britain claimed Mauritius had never held sovereignty over the territory, the world ...

She also wrote: "I would like to reassure you that the legal and historical contexts of the Chagos Archipelago and the Falkland Islands are very different." Now Express.co.uk is asking its readers ...

Demonstrators from Chagos Islands during a protest seeking the end of British occupation of the Indian Ocean archipelago ... critical part of the world. In the late 1960s, Britain was facing ...