The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

Perhaps local people might buy fares on the military ... A similar deal in the Chagos Islands would require the collaboration of the US military, which operates the Singapore link.

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which ... “You don’t need such a runway for an island of a few hundred people.” Though some in the Mauritian elite worry about becoming ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s, Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...