Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...
In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...
The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...
An evacuation order has been implemented for some people who live near the Garden Fire that’s burning southwest of the ...
The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...
Traffic signals are dark at Main Street and Canyon Boulevard in John Day on Aug. 1, 2024. The intersection has been ...
The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...
Chagos is nearly three times the area of the British Isles. In 2010, it became the world's largest marine protected area that bans any form of fishing. The shallow water coral reefs account for 1. ...
MADISON - Retired school administrator Nancy Novack has launched a write-in campaign for the PreK-12 School District Board of ...
Grant County voters have some decisions to make. Ballots in the election that ends Nov. 5 will feature contested races for ...
The Mauritian government has long argued that the Chagos Islands bear significant comparison to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories thousands of miles away. Their position was ...
As news broke out that the United Kingdom had made arrangements to hand over its last colony in Africa, very little was said about the people it drove out of the Chagos Islands during its ...