The government has put the much-contested Chagos islands deal ‘on hold’ after outcry from Labour backbenchers. The deal would see sovereignty over the Chagos islands returned to Mauritius ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

That said, the decision to pay Mauritius to take over the Chagos Islands has me stumped. There must be good reasons for doing this deal, but nobody has been able to explain what they are.

Chagossian Bernadette Dugasse looks at a Chagos Islands map during an interview with The Associated Press, at her home in London, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) 31,039 people ...

The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the controversial, multi-billion pound move survived an eleventh-hour legal challenge ...

The agreement would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the U.K. to Mauritius — though Britain would retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts ...

The government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High Court judge. At 02:25 BST Mr Justice Goose granted "interim relief ...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Britain signed a deal on Thursday to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after a London judge overturned a last-minute injunction and cleared the way ...

So why has the government handed the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a nation some thousand miles away? The answer has a legal origin and a practical conclusion. It all focuses on the joint UK-US ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after an earlier challenge was overturned, allowing the agreement to go ahead. Speaking to journalists on Thursday afternoon ...

LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean that's ...