UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

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

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British administration. The ...

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday signed an agreement transferring sovereignty over the Chagos ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

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

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...

The strategic significance of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean can hardly be overstated. After all, Diego Garcia the largest of the islands, has been a crucial airbase for many decades.

Mauritius has been intent on reclaiming Chagos for decades ... rent for Diego Garcia and opportunities to build hotels on the archipelago – but many noted he made no mention of Chagossians.