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 ...

The Chagos Islands will return to Mauritius, but the Diego Garcia military base will still remain under control of the US and ...

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 ...

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

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 home to Diego Garcia, one of world's most secretive places and home to an important U.S. military base ...

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 ...