Mauritius could 'rent' islands near crucial Chagos military base to China and spark Cuban Missile crisis style confrontation unless UK hands over sovereignty and £9bn…
Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no ...
Chagos Islands judge is ex-China official who backed Putin's attack on Ukraine
The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.
Chagos deal chaos as Mauritius could rent nearby islands to China
The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...
Chagos case judge is ex-China official who backed Russian invasion of Ukraine
Xue Hanqin was one of the international judges who ruled Britain should hand the strategically important territory to ...
Starmer’s ‘outlandish’ Chagos deal ‘could be challenged in court’
Writing for The Telegraph, ex-attorney general Sir Michael Ellis says PM’s ‘irrational’ decision exposes Government to ...
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Top UK barrister hits back at Tory attacks on ‘North London lawyers’
Philippe Sands’ comments, accusing the Conservatives of playing into an antisemitic trope, were dismissed as an “absurd smear ...
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Panama Folds as Australia Ducks for Cover
The U.S. is also the leading source of foreign direct investment in Panama. According to the CRS, China leads (slightly) the ...