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

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

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

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

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

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

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

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

The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that an agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ...

The Ministry of External Affairs MEA expressed its support for the UK-Mauritius Chagos archipelago agreement and said that the pact marks a significant milest ...

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

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