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

Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of ...

The Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) have, today, reached an agreement ...

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

By Alistair Smout, Michael Holden and Villen Anganan LONDON/PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Britain said on Thursday it would cede ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

Britain says it will hand over the sovereignty of a cluster of islands to Mauritius under a bilateral agreement that secures ...

British Foreign Minister David Lammy said the deal settled the contested sovereignty of Britain’s last overseas territory in ...

UK envoy Jonathan Powell on Friday slammed critics of the Government’s Chagos Islands deal, saying the US was fully on board, that it was first negotiated by the Tories, and that claims it pushes ...

The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...