The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Blame game takes in James Cleverly and Liz Truss as UK announces decision to hand archipelago back to Mauritius in deal to ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the agreement will secure the future of the base at Diego Garcia ... has been ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

Britain said that the operation of Diego Garcia, a strategic military base jointly operated with the United States, was protected by the agreement, which also allows Mauritius to resettle the rest ...

NEW DELHI: Britain on Thursday said it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius as part of a deal allowing the UK and the US to maintain a strategic military base on the atoll ...