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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

It will see Mauritius assume sovereignty over the islands, with the UK authorised to exercise the sovereign rights of ...