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 ...

Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of ...

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 ...

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

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

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius but under what US President Joe ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...

The UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...

Washington, Oct 3 (IANS): The United States on Thursday welcomed the "historic agreement" between the United Kingdom and Mauritius on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago and ...