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 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 ...

Archipelago was annexed by Britain before Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s. 3 Sep 2018 - 12:03PM Britain’s humiliating defeat at UN for claim to Indian Ocean ‘territory’ ...

Speaking in the Commons this week, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said: “Both sides remain committed to concluding a deal on the future of the Chagos archipelago, which protects the ...

Beginning last month, the B-2 bombers were sent to the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago as part of the U.S. military’s build-up in the region. The United States Air Force may ...

Donald Trump has cleared the UK's plan to 'surrender' the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... Starmer's plan to hand over the strategically important archipelago - and £9billion - that the US ...

The recent deal between UK and the Republic of Mauritius on sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago ... the Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly notes the UK Government's recent announcement ...

Keir Starmer's deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius appears ... wave of criticism that the strategically located archipelago was being 'surrendered' to a nation with ...

India welcomed the agreement between the UK and Mauritius on the return of Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago, saying this "significant" understanding completes the decolonisation ...

LONDON (AP) — Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to ...

Narendra Modi was set to support Mauritius in its dispute with Britain over the Chagos archipelago as India’s prime minister arrived in the Indian Ocean nation to a grand welcome on Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to ...