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

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

The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years.

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

A country in Africa owns a bizarre strip of land that looks like a cartographer's hand slipped when they were drawing the map ...

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, ...

It has the world’s third largest proven oil reserves ... other ports froze over for months each year) and the Indian ocean.

Fears that Britain could hand over Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands have been cooled by a cabinet minister amid fury over ...

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A treaty finalized by the UK may bring about the end of the .io domain. Last week, the British government announced that it ...

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

Note: Some facts about the first land acquisition in New Hampshire’s northern territory in last week’s column were in error.