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

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

Britain says it is surrendering the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after years of struggle for control of the territory Read ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong ...

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

LONDON: Britain on Thursday (Oct 3) said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

LONDON/PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - On Thursday 3 October 2024, the United Kingdom said it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos ...

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

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

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