The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the Chagos archipelago (and the massive US base on Diego Garcia island) to ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after an earlier challenge was overturned, allowing the agreement to go ahead. Speaking to journalists on Thursday afternoon ...

Everything you need to know about the Chagos Islands deal ... "The public interest and the interests of the United Kingdom would be substantially prejudiced by the grant or continuance ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia ...

United Kingdom agrees deal over Chagos Islands despite court challenge. Issued on: 23 ... Britain has signed an agreement to hand sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The ...

EXCLUSIVE: Seeing as though the Government refused to hear me, I thought I'd lay out for the Daily Express just how bad this surrender will be.

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing ...

All the way back in October 2024, the United Kingdom handed over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of often fractious negotiations between the two nations. The move also ...

United Kingdom set to sign deal ceding sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius “Britain to cede Chagos Islands to Mauritius, secure Diego Garcia base in deal with the U.S.” reports say ...

David Lammy accused a Reform UK MP of “swallowing conspiracy theories” over a question she asked him in the House of Commons.