This week, Keir Starmer and Defence Secretary John Healey unveiled what they call a “Strategic Defence Review.” In reality, it’s a glossy brochure of wishful thinking, delay, and delusion. The UK’s ...

Analysis - The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.

The Government’s announcement of the Chagos Islands deal was temporarily delayed after a legal challenge was launched by ...

The Chagos archipelago includes roughly 60 islands in the central Indian Ocean. Image by Andrés Alegría/Mongabay. In 2010, the U.K. unilaterally established a marine protected area (MPA) in Chagos, an ...

Decades of dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, rooted in colonial history and international legal challenges, have been addressed after the United Kingdom agreed to transfer ...

Retired Royal Navy Officer Rear Admiral Chris Parry has hit out at Keir Starmer's Chagos deal after the lawyer who secured the agreement was exposed for hailing the "humiliation" of Britain. Philippe ...

Private yachts are an “easy, low-risk” route for bringing illegal migrants into the UK, a former British soldier turned people smuggler has claimed. The former soldier interviewed by the BBC ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British control. This controversial deal allows the UK and US to retain joint use of the Diego ...

The UK has signed a long-awaited deal to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. It means Britain will give up sovereignty of the Indian Ocean territory and lease back the vital UK-US ...

India welcomed the signing of the Chagos Islands treaty, saying the formal resolution of the long-standing dispute is a milestone achievement and a positive development for the region.The ministry ...

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.