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

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

Britain said Thursday it would cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 small islands in the ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

"Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

In 1814, Britain moved to formally take possession of the Chagos Islands and nearby Mauritius from French rule. During this period, the islanders lived relatively undisturbed, self-sufficient lives.