This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these restrictions, it is very rare that every day people can visit the islands.
Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...
What are we getting in return? That has been the question critics of the Government have been asking over surrendering the ...
The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...
It sparked a long legal dispute, due to the island's unusual status as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot ... A court hearing took place on Diego Garcia last month over whether ...
When Mauritius gained independence from the British Empire in 1968, Britain held on to the Chagos Islands, which it had ...
Worldview: The UK leaves the Chagos Islands much as it governed them, with a total disregard for the feelings or aspirations ...
Robert Jenrick has accused David Lammy of handing over the Chagos Islands so he can “feel good about himself at his next ...
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian ...
The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African ...
Sir Keir Starmer has warned that a two-state solution is “the only viable long-term route through” the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, as he said Britain’s thoughts are with the Jewish people on the ...