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.

The deal will transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the U.K. to Mauritius — though Britain will retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts a ...

The U.K. has agreed 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 secure the future of a ...

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

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.

Diego Garcia was the last British overseas territory in Africa/ In 1965, Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, a former colony that gained independence three years later, to ...

Enduring disputed claims over Diego Garcia, an atoll within the Chagos archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, have come to an end after a deal was struck between the UK and Mauritius on 3 ...

Britain’s purpose in granting Washington the 50-year lease on Diego Garcia in the 1960s—kept secret from both Parliament and the US Congress—was to secure an $11 million discount on the US ...

Following a lease agreement with Britain, the U.S. built the naval base at Diego Garcia for defense purposes in the 1970s. The U.S. has described the base as “an all but indispensable platform ...

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 ...

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 ...