After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

The Labour Government's decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has prompted concerns Sir Keir Starmer may give ...

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 ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Freedom for Chagos islands: by Peter Harris Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University Britain is close to resolving its territorial dispute with Mauritius over the Chagos ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give the Chagos Islands away in return for its own independence from Britain, with ...

The Foreign Secretary today faced the fury of Tory MPs as spoke about the deal to hand over the Indian Ocean archipelago for ...

Downing Street said the decision over the British Indian Ocean Territory was because of its unique circumstances.

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...