The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.
Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...
Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...
The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...
The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.
At this point in history, the United States is the world’s only superpower. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
Three months in and Labour are already leaving us weaker and opening the door to our rivals. Keir Starmer’s legalism, not ...
The UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...