If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

as the latest twist in the Chagos deal unfolds. On a day when we expected the Mauritian government to rubber stamp the plans to take over sovereignty of the archipelago from the UK, any agreement ...

Representatives from the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom held further productive discussions in London this week on the future of the Chagos Archipelago. In a joint statement ...

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically vital UK-US military base on Diego Garcia has run into difficulties (Alamy/PA) The UK has been negotiating a deal ...

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.

Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. Part one — Why the Proposed UK-Mauritius Handover Would Be a Strategic Blow ...

as the latest twist in the Chagos deal unfolds. On a day when we expected the Mauritian government to rubber stamp the plans to take over sovereignty of the archipelago from the UK, any agreement ...