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 in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

Under the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius €120 million each year to lease back their military base for at least 99 years ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is set to conclude a multi-billion dollar deal over the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a ...

The UK is expected to sign a 99-year lease on the base, once sovereignty of the Chagos Islands is handed back to Mauritius.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he has signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

Recent operations launched from the base include bombing strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in 2024-2025. Read more at ...

Early on Thursday, an emergency injunction from the High Court had stopped the government from concluding the Chagos Island ...

UK prime minister Keir Starmer has formally signed an agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a scramble ...

British PM Keir Starmer hails deal, which allows UK to retain control of strategic UK-US airbase, as ‘absolutely vital’.

Undoing last night’s injunction, a judge has now allowed British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to go ahead with the Chagos ...

The injunction was the latest legal challenge to the deal brought by members of the Chagossian diaspora who were forcibly ...