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The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval ...
And now China hawks have expressed fears that Keir Starmer could have handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Beijing ...
The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...
Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...
LONDON (AP) — Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to ...
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 ...
Narendra Modi was set to support Mauritius in its dispute with Britain over the Chagos archipelago as India’s prime minister arrived in the Indian Ocean nation to a grand welcome on Tuesday.
In the late 1960s, the inhabitants of the remote Chagos Islands were forcibly moved to make way for a military base. Now London wants to hand over the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at ...
Beginning last month, the B-2 bombers were sent to the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago as part of the U.S. military’s build-up in the region. The United States Air Force may ...
The UK’s handover of the Chagos archipelago and retention of Diego Garcia is a strategic move that raises questions about the intentions of major powers’ relations with small island nations.