Without British oversight, experts fear fishing vessels will have free rein to harvest the region, damaging its pristine reef ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s government announces Britain will return of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius - but what’s it like on the ...

For months, the BBC had fought for access to the island - the largest of the Chagos Archipelago. We wanted to cover a historic court case being held over the treatment of Sri Lankan Tamils ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination. It is strictly out of ...

Four people are facing charges in connection with a drug trafficking investigation in Collingwood. The Collingwood OPP street crime unit was assisted in the probe by the Barrie OPP organized crime ...

The Chagos islands, in the Indian Ocean, were governed under UK colonial rule from the island of Mauritius. The Chagossians, an Indigenous people, are the descendants of enslaved people and ...

A restricted zone brought in to stem the transmission of bluetongue in Kent has been extended to cover the entire county, and will also cover East Sussex. It comes as the UK Chief Veterinary ...

New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) The government’s sustained campaign against Left Wing Extremism (LWE) has led to the menace being restricted to 43 districts as against 200 before 2014, sources said on Sunday.

Between 1786 and 1788, he surveyed areas including the Chagos archipelago (near south of Maldives), Diamond Harbour near Calcutta, and the Hooghly River. One of Blair’s most significant undertakings ...