largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base “Show them a map of the world; most of them have a job finding the Isle of Wight.” Sir Humphrey Appleby’s astute ...

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 ...

The UK has handed sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after decades of negotiations. The Indian Ocean archipelago had been a British island territory for over half a century ...

Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago ... a political agreement to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius ...

In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

People who couldn’t find these islands on a map have quickly acquired strong ... this ­country in a profoundly shabby light. The Chagos archipelago lies in the ­middle of the Indian Ocean.

I was speaking with a friend last week, not just about the challenges of driving from one city to another, but making short ...