According to National Geographic, the Ring of Fire marks the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian ... ruled that the UK unlawfully separated the Chagos archipelago from ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

also known as the Chagos Archipelago, to a foreign government". The government was required to "maintain the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom over the British Indian Ocean Territory until ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Recently, a UK court stepped in at the last moment to pause a significant deal that would have transferred control of the ...

LONDON – 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 home to ...

LONDON — (AP) — A British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands ... to Mauritius of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a strategically ...

Before Mauritius Islands became independent in 1968, the UK separated the Chagos archipelago, and later leased the main island Diego Garcia to the United States which established a military base.