Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval ...

A new future for the Chagos is approaching. On April 1st a British government spokesman said that Britain was finalising a ...

Trump announced a 10 percent tariff on all U.S. imports on Wednesday, on what he dubbed "Liberation Day." The president then ...

The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was speaking to the U.K. about a potential deal between Britain and Mauritius to transfer ...

Donald Trump has formally signed off Sir Keir Starmer ’s deal to hand the Chagos islands over to Mauritius, No 10 has said.

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...