an archipelago of nearly 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius as part of a deal to secure the US-UK military base at Diego Garcia. This move was lauded by India, which shares close ...

And now China hawks have expressed fears that Keir Starmer could have handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Beijing ...

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

but has resisted because of the military base on Diego Garcia island that plays a key role for US operations in the Indian Ocean and Gulf. "For the first time in more than 50 years, the status of ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

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

Britain has said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what US President Joe Biden called a "historic agreement" it will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military ...

The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...

UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius LONDON -- UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian ...

The island of Rodrigues ... this tiny volcanic outpost in the Indian Ocean beats Mauritius hands down for snorkelling and diving, deep-sea fishing and kite-surfing. There’s barely a soul ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...