UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is about to find out if his lawyerly approach to international affairs can survive contact with a world led by Donald Trump.

The Guna have lived on Gardi Sugdub since the 19th Century, and even longer on other islands in this archipelago off Panama's ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

Mauritius, a China ally, is on course to take control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. But the deal remains on ice until Mr ...

Now, The Independent understands that Chagossian Voices, a group representing people who originate from the Chagos Islands, has sought legal advice ... rejecting Mauritian sovereignty over the ...

and paves the way for the indigenous people of the Chagos Islands – the Chagossians – to resettle parts of the archipelago for the first time in more than 50 years. The deal’s detractors are ...

From higher borrowing costs to the threat of a trade war, the incoming US administration could directly affect the UK's economy ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s the UK evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the US military could build the Diego Garcia base.

The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos ... archipelago gained independence. In the 1960s and 1970s, the UK evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands ...

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, which it called the British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then-colony Mauritius in 1965 — three years before the archipelago gained independence. In the ...

Why does he the PM think British people ... the Chagos Archipelago remains unshaken.' Labour made the shock announcement in October that it was going to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands ...