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

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

The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator ... says that without the deal the status of the military base would be under threat from legal challenges.

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ... a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base at Diego Garcia LONDON -- The ...

In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...

The deal grants Mauritius full sovereignty over the archipelago, while simultaneously guaranteeing the operation of the US-UK military base for 99 years. Britain on Thursday said it will cede ...

The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the ...

for the establishment of a joint military base. As part of this agreement, known as the Lancaster House Agreement, the UK government employed coercive measures to separate the Chagos Archipelago ...

LONDON (AP) — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military ... The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator off ...

3 (UPI) --The United Kingdom says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the ... secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested ...

Britain says it will hand over the sovereignty of a cluster of islands to Mauritius under a bilateral agreement that secures the future of a strategically important military base there. The ...