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A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...

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

Prime Minister Keir Starmer had struck a deal after years of negotiations. The British islands they call “home” would be ...

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The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat repeatedly shouted “not true” as Mr Lammy set out the reasons behind the Government’s decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...