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 ...

China hawks fear that Keir Starmer could have handed Xi Jinping a major win after ceding the Chagos Islands, in the middle of ...

Britain's deal to hand back control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has sparked concerns of a strategic surrender to China ...

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.

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago - a ...