The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant US military base. Will the Cocos Islands be ...

Surrendering UK sovereignty of the Chagos Islands is an “irresponsible act”, a Labour former minister has said, backing calls ...

a chain of more than 60 islands off the coast of India. The deal would allow the U.K. and U.S. to maintain the Diego Garcia military base. However, following a change in leadership in Mauritius ...

Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago, houses a US-UK military base - HO/US Navy/REUTERS The Chagos Islands had been interpreted by the US and UK to be exempt, in part because ...

Ex-Labour security minister in call to withdraw from ‘irresponsible’ Chagos Islands deal - Admiral Lord West of Spithead said ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer struck a deal with the then Mauritian government in October that his government said would secure ...

The Chagos Islands deal could prevent the ... over the British Indian Ocean Territory, including Diego Garcia, which houses a UK-US military base. However, experts have warned that the handover ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed deal with Mauritius to hand over the Chagos Islands would not prevent ... was to protect the joint UK/US military base on Diego Garcia, which plays a crucial role ...

Downing Street has refused to reveal how much it has offered to pay Mauritius for a 99-year lease of the crucial ...