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

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

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 ...

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

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

Last week, after six decades of acrimonious legal battles, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Far from remedying a longstanding injustice ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

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 ...

The UK has agreed to relinquish sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius - ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the ... its only publicly acknowledged overseas military facility, according to Newsweek's map of American and Chinese bases around the world. David Lammy, Britain's ...