Indications are that the Maldivian side, which comprises a huge official delegation and also a separate business team, is now ...

The answer should have been a clear “no”. No, the UK does not accept the advisory judgment of the court. No, the UK does not ...

We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...

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 ...

I stick by the old journalistic rule that “Half an hour spent with Who’s Who is never wasted”. It is a tremendous compendium ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to give up control of islands that hold a secretive U.S. military base to ...

PM says deal ensures continuation of UK-US military base on the islands and has been welcomed with ‘warm words’ by US.  ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

After more than half a century of dispute, the United Kingdom reached a “historic agreement” with Mauritius on Thursday ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.