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

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

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

Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of ...

The Prime Minister insisted he has "secured" the Diego Garcia military base, which is used by the US to support operations in ...

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

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

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

In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

Envoy Jonathan Powell also slams critics of the pact, which he says was first negotiated by the Tories, stressing it’s ‘rubbish’ to claim China will benefit ...

The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.

LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...