LONDON (AP) — A British court said Thursday that the U.K. can transfer sovereignty over the contested and strategically ...

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The British government has handed control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the ...

A ceremony transferring sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was called off ...

Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K., wondering what it would be like to set foot on the ...

Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. She didn’t get ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

Under the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius €120 million each year to lease back their military base for at least 99 years ...

The Chagos Islands are a strategically significant area, with one of its islands, Diego Garcia, serving as a key military ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been barred from signing it by a British judge ...