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

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

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

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

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

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

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

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

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

The agreement to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands has reawakened the debate about the Falklands. Sean O’Grady examines ...

The Prime Minister is facing major pressure over what critics said was the 'surrender' of the Indian Ocean archipelago almost 6,000 miles from Britain which is home to the US air station.

Buenos Aires' foreign minister Diana Mondino vowed to seek 'full sovereignty' of the Islands in the South Atlantic, which ...