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

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

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

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.

The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...

Since 1971, only Diego Garcia has been allowed inhabitants - US military employees - after the UK expelled the Chagossians at ...

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 ...

3 (UPI) --The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian ... the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday. World News // 13 hours ago U.S. names ...

Image Source : REUTERS UK has decided to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after years of contestations. London: The United Kingdom has agreed to hand over sovereignty of ...

Washington, DC [US], October 3 (ANI): The United States has hailed the historic Chagos archipelago agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius today and hailed how diplomacy can overcome ...