Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

The UK agreed to transfer the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius after 99 years. The initial period allows the UK to manage ...

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

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

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.

In 1966, it leased Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, to the US. About three years after Mauritius became independent in 1968, Britain evicted nearly 2,000 islanders to Mauritius ...