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

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

Exclusive: The blame game for who was responsible for the UK handing over the key Indian Ocean islands has now dragged in ...

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

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

India played an important role in forging a historic deal between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over the strategically ...

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

The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.

LONDON/PORT LOUIS: Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

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