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

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The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base. It is one of the U.S. military's main ways of projecting power into the Indo-Pacific, a region toward which the ...

including a naval base in Bahrain close to a Royal Navy support facility. However, Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago – British sovereign territory that the Government ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands ... important naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia. The U.K. would then ...