The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
"Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, ...
Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were ...
UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...
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 ...