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 ...

The prime minister last week refused to rule out ending British control of Gibraltar and the Falklands as he faced a backlash ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

The UK decision was welcomed by India and the US, and shows a capacity for fresh thinking. But the transfer of sovereignty ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

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

The islands have been known as the British ... to be able to take forward environmental action. The announcement of an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago might end years ...

The Falklands are safe in British hands, the governor of the islands has insisted amid a row over the Chagos Islands. It was ...

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

What started as a bid for the UK to mend fences with its former colonies may, in fact, evolve into a major turning point for ...