Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is one of the most important US military bases and was used for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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 ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...
In a historic decision this week, the UK transferred sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after more than 200 years ...
Britain announced on Thursday, the 3rd of October, that it would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...