The tiny Indian Ocean nation is tied with Monaco at the head of Nomad Capitalist's  Freedom Index 2025 after announcing plans ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

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.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

LONDON — Britain must address the potential threat from China when its Indian Ocean deal with Mauritius regarding the Chagos group of islands expires, senior British lawmakers have warned Foreign ...

Though few in the United States even know that it exists, the Chagos Archipelago, located in the center of the Indian Ocean, is also home to a major US military base on Diego Garcia that has ...

UK Chagos Islands deal must be ratified to secure Diego Garcia, peers say Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement ...

In exercising its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius is free to implement a resettlement program on islands other than Diego Garcia. This resettlement will be conducted in accordance ...

For those born on Diego Garcia and those with ancestors buried there, it’s not enough to return to the other Chagos islands, at least 150 miles away.

Starting in 1968, they were displaced from the chain of islands by British colonial rulers to set up a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, the archipelago’s largest island.