Keir Starmer says the deal - which involves leasing the Diego Garcia base for 99 years, with the option of another 40 - is in the UK's national interest.

LONDON (AP) — A British court said Thursday that the U.K. can transfer sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, overturning a block that was imposed hours ...

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

T he United Kingdom has finalized a historic £3.4 billion agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

“It’s total recognition of our sovereignty on the Chagos, including Diego ... a draft agreement to hand the islands to Mauritius and allow the UK and the US to continue using the Diego Garcia ...

Net overall cost of securing Diego Garcia military base for next 99 years is $4.5B, says Keir Starmer - Anadolu Ajansı ...

LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

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

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 ...

The UK's top allies were on board with the deal ... Britain kept control of the Chagos Islands after Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s. But it evicted thousands of Chagos islanders ...

There have been reports that the Chagos deal could cost the UK government £18bn, a figure the Foreign Office has labelled "inaccurate and misleading". The UK has had sovereignty over the islands ...

LONDON (AP) — Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands.