LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

Chagos deal cost is ‘going rate for best defensive real estate’, says ex-FO boss - The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

They applied for asylum in the UK, opening a complicated legal-diplomatic game, on Diego Garcia, the southernmost Chagos island, about 500 kilometres south of the Maldives.

Britain faces mounting questions about its own role in the rapidly escalating tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States - after US airstrikes shattered three of Iran’s nuclear sites ...

Washington is bolstering its military presence at Diego Garcia amid rising tensions with Iran and ongoing strikes on Yemen's Houthis.

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. The island is known as an American military base. As cited from Times of India, satellite ...

Simultaneously, long-range bombers at Diego Garcia are nothing new; the United States used B-52 bombers from Diego Garcia against both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Last year, during a brief conflict between Israel and Iran, UK warplanes were reported to have helped shoot down incoming Iranian drones heading for Israel. But in this conflict an Israeli ...

Thousands of peaceful protesters stand up for rights in an Anti-Racism Protest in London, UK, August 7, 2024. In July 2024, a new Labour government was elected following more than a decade of ...

Mauritius is pushing the UK for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and billions of dollars, but the US could scupper its plans, reports Seán Carey.