The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

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

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

India played a “quiet but important role in the background” during the negotiations, firmly backing the Mauritian position ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

Operation of Diego Garcia, a strategic military base jointly operated by the UK and US, is protected by the agreement.

The British government struck a deal with Mauritius to hand over the cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as ...