Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K., wondering what it would be like to set foot on the ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The UK on Thursday signed an agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia military ...

The agreement puts an end to decades of litigation and helps Britain retain access to Diego Garcia, home to a joint U.S.-U.K.

The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

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

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been ...