The UK was ceded the territories by the French in 1814. Historically, the islands were administered as part of Britain’s Mauritius colony. But on November 8, 1965, the UK discreetly dismembered the ...
The atoll of Diego Garcia — the largest of the ChagosIslands, and a relic of the UK’s colonial past — is home to the US Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military facility that was ...
The Government of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed Thursday to hand over sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory ChagosIslands to Mauritius after two years of talks to bring ...