During this debate, members will consider two motions against the ratification of the UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago, which would transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Members of the House of Lords stress that renewal of the deal in 99 years will depend on the goodwill of the then-government ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is ...

On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...

What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle ...

The airbase that could be used to launch bunker-busting strikes on Iran has seen an influx of heavy American bombers and ...

The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and ...

The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference in London.

Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, gray political map. British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, and site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges in federal court in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who had been living in Maryland ...