Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
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 ...
Sir Keir Starmer had sparked fury after refusing to rule out giving up sovereignty over the the Falklands and Gibraltar.
Critics in Britain fear this would open access to China, but a British-US military base will remain even after Mauritius ...
We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...
I am disgusted with the Labour Government for its appalling capitulation to Mauritius, by surrendering our sovereignty of the ...
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising over 1 ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were ...