The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

China has a well-documented track record of leveraging debt and infrastructure projects to entrench its influence across the developing world ... footprint in the Chagos archipelago would ...

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

A judge working for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the UK over the Chagos Islands is a ... never been under their control. The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK ...

The Chagos Islands deal has been hailed as necessary ... near the existing US military base, if the archipelago isn't given to Mauritius. He wrote in The Times: "If you value UK national security ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands is so “outlandish ... for David Cameron when he was prime minister. The archipelago is claimed by Mauritius, which argues that the ...

The Chagos Archipelago, comprising around 58 islands ... The countries of this grouping are among the world’s worst-affected countries due to rising sea levels.The PIF aims to push for economic growth ...

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 ...

Lord Dannatt, former chief of the general staff, said it is “very hard to find good news” in the prime minister’s deal to cede control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, and raised questions ...