Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his ...

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its foothold, but islanders wonder if they'll be able to go home again.

This Monday, May 26, the Argentine Foreign Ministry published a release celebrating the Agreement between the governments of UK and of the Republic of Mauritius referred to the Chagos archipelago ...

Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge told MPs the government was "following the legal advice to act definitively to our ...

The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

The Chagos Islands are an archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Under the deal, the U.K. can continue leasing the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, keeping the key military facility ...

It comes after Chagossian campaigners submitted a formal legal communication to the UN as part of an attempt to challenge the ...

Here are some key points about the islands, the deal and why it was contentious: ISLANDERS DISPLACED The Chagos Archipelago is a group of six atolls with more than 600 individual islands in the ...

The archipelago is best known for the military base on Diego Garcia, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2008, the U.S. acknowledged it also had ...

LONDON – The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean that's home to ...