Pursuant to the deal, the UK will retain sovereignty over Diego Garcia for an initial period of 99 years and will pay Mauritius an undisclosed rent. London will also set up a “resettlement ...

Starmer said the deal to secure the U.K.-U.S. military base in Diego Garcia — to be leased for more than $100 million a year — is vital for Britain's defense, intelligence and national security.

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, peers said.

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

The deal will transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the U.K. to Mauritius — though Britain will retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts a ...

UK defies UN deadline to hand over Chagos Islands/Diego Garcia to Mauritius. 26 November 2019. UN endorses International Court of Justice hearing on Chagos Islands/Diego Garcia. 5 July 2017.

Diego Garcia is the southernmost island in the archipelago. It began to be used as a military station in the seventies, but its importance skyrocketed after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

Diego Garcia... Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the British Isles, is desperate to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, yet another nation surrounded by water.

Starmer said the deal to secure the U.K.-U.S. military base in Diego Garcia — to be leased for more than $100 million a year — is vital for Britain's defense, intelligence and national security.

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.