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

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands ...

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 United Kingdom will pay Mauritius 101 million pounds ($136 million) per year to lease back the Chagos Island base for at least 99 years.

Some Chagos Islands-born protesters said the deal jeopardizes the limited the rights they have to visit the islands, including to tend the graves of relatives.

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