Amid criticism over the Chagos Islands deal, the British government has said that the deal is required to secure access to ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday told his Mauritian counterpart, Navin Ramgoolam, that he wants "strong ...

Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

The British government was grilled in parliament on Wednesday as it denied claims by Mauritius that a new deal to return the ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned his British counterpart to beware of China’s “malign influence” in a veiled ...

The UK Government argues the agreement will safeguard the future of the US military base on Diego Garcia, given the legality of Britain’s claim to the island was in dispute. But Tories ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

In response to Badenoch, Sir Keir told PMQs the planned agreement would ensure the military base on Diego Garcia can continue operating effectively. What I found on the secretive tropical island ...

The government announced a deal to hand over the islands to Mauritius in October 2024, which is meant to secure the future of a secretive military base on the island of Diego Garcia. But it is ...