The Conservatives will demand answers on Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal in Parliament on Monday as they seek a ...

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign secretaries would ...

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, ...

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...

The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.