The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The Conservatives will demand answers on Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal in Parliament on Monday as they seek a ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

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 UK has agreed to return the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. This marks the culmination of decades-long negotiations and efforts to decolonize the archipelago.

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

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

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

Argentina has reaffirmed its intention to claim full sovereignty over the South Atlantic Falklands islands, with the ...