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

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

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

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 ...

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for completing our ...

India played a pivotal yet understated role in resolving the decades-long dispute over the Chagos archipelago. The historic agreement, which returned sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius after two ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Britain's deal to hand back control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has sparked concerns of a strategic surrender to China ...

India reportedly encouraged both the UK and Mauritius to negotiate 'with an open mind and a view to achieving mutually ...

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – after a long dispute ...

Chagossians claim they were repeatedly refused the chance to take part in negotiations behind the historic deal.