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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LONDON: Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what President ...

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

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

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...