Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

As part of the deal, the U.K. will retain sovereignty of Diego Garcia for an initial period of 99 years, and will pay ...

The UK government confirmed yesterday they are handing over its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...