In May 2025 the British government agreed to give sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key ...

CRAWLEY, England (Reuters) - Chagossians living in Britain said fresh doubts over a deal to hand sovereignty of their islands to Mauritius had given them a "last chance" to demand a rethink, and ...

After the loss of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Diego Garcia is a critical lifeline for the American military in the region ...

The government’s latest difficulties in the House of Lords over plans to surrender the Chagos islands is another humiliation ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism. Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

Tue, Jan 6, 2026 Patriotic peers have defeated the government four separate times in crucial votes on the Chagos Islands ...

The issue of self-determination and whether Chagossians were entitled to a referendum on the UK’s controversial decision to ...

Recently, a UK court stepped in at the last moment to pause a significant deal that would have transferred control of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands, a remote ...

LONDON — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday against a deal they ...

Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the rights of the weakest against the ambitions of the powerful during an audience Saturday with exiled refugees from Chagos, the contested Indian Ocean archipelago that ...

At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a dose of encouragement. There, among the ...