Under a deal with Mauritius, after what are said to be years of negotiations, the UK will hand over the Chagos Islands to that country in what has been described as a historic move. The archipelago ...

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...

Last Thursday, Vanessa Calou got a phone call from a number in Mauritius. “They said, ‘I think Mauritius got Chagos’, and I ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the ...

David Lammy was heckled in the House of Commons as he defended the decision to give up UK control over the Chagos Islands.

Joe Biden pushed the UK into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the US would lose control of an important air base, ...

UK foreign secretary says a deal over control of the Chagos Islands will not impact other overseas territories.