MP calls for ‘self-determination’ for Chagos on eve of ‘Margaret Thatcher Day’ - Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MP for ...

Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

The world’s largest island is now “central to the geopolitical, geoeconomic competition in many ways,” partly because of ...

President-elect Donald Trump is still set to be sentenced in his hush money case this week — at least for now — after a New ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and the United States.

when the U.K. carved it into the British Indian Ocean Territory. Mauritius gained independence in 1968, but the U.K. retained control of Chagos, allowing the U.S. to establish a military base on ...

tossing three people into the Pacific Ocean. The storm was expected to bring hurricane-force winds and waves up to 60 feet (18 meters) as it gained strength from California to the Pacific Northwest.

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being ...