UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

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 ...