After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...
Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination. It is strictly out of ...
The British government has been under pressure for decades to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... archipelago -- renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory -- since its independence ...
Mauritius has claimed the archipelago — renamed British Indian Ocean Territory — since its independence in 1968 and garnered increasing international support. In 2019 the International Court of ...
Buenos Aires' foreign minister Diana Mondino vowed to seek 'full sovereignty' of the Islands in the South Atlantic, which ...
which has maintained a claim to the islands for decades. A future treaty to that effect will end London's administration of what it currently calls the British Indian Ocean Territory. Diego Garcia ...
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Tory party leader and leading China hawk, told the Mail 'it would be madness' to hand the ...