The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering ...

Ceding the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is meant to keep the Diego Garcia military base, London has said Britain ceded its ...

Joe Biden pushed the UK into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the US would lose control of an important air base, ...

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign secretaries would ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

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

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

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...