After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...
The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
The British government agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ...
Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom ...
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 ...