Mauritius has long claimed sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. In recent months, it has been negotiating a treaty with Britain to regain control over the archipelago, which would involve the U.K ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was speaking to the U.K. about a potential deal between Britain and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. Britain and Mauritius are ...

The list included major trade allies like China and the European Union, as well as a collection of small, sometimes entirely uninhabited islands ... is the remote Chagos archipelago, embroiled ...

MPs have slammed Labour’s “disregard” for the environmental consequences of their Chagos Islands surrender ... on the future of the Chagos archipelago. There has been an agreement that ...

It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which ... Mauritius gets sovereignty over the archipelago. But Britain retains “sovereign rights” over Diego Garcia. Critics of the deal ...

According to No 10, Donald Trump has “signed off” on the highly controversial Chagos Islands deal, drawing to a close the tortuous process of securing the future of the UK-US military base ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The Government has refused to say when it believes the deal with Mauritius for the Chagos Islands will be completed ... a deal on the future of the Chagos archipelago, which protects the long ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos ... archipelago, which is home to a strategically important naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands ...