British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a judge paved the way for the deal ...

For years, China has taken over uninhabited reef islands and transformed ... handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean ...

A new study shows this behavior is driven by climate change, impacting the delicate balance of reef ecosystems. The study was conducted around the Chagos Archipelago in the central Indian Ocean.

The Chagos Islands, an archipelago of 58 islands in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia, were given to Britain by France in 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. France ceded ...

The recent deal between UK and the Republic of Mauritius on sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago, and the future of their people, has triggered the aspirations of nationalist groups in Spain ...

Four small coral islands, an atoll and a reef in the Indian Ocean are at ... Madagascar has "seized" on the UK's decision to return the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius to restate its claim to ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

However, Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago – British sovereign territory that the Government wants to hand over to Mauritius. This in and of itself has proved ...

Chagos Archipelago, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Other geographic highlights include Atlantic and Antarctic material. A largely historic collection, the non-reef corals are from ...