British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed an agreement Thursday to deliver sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

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

British PM Keir Starmer hails deal, which allows UK to retain control of strategic UK-US airbase, as ‘absolutely vital’.

It comes after Chagossian campaigners submitted a formal legal communication to the UN as part of an attempt to challenge the ...

"The public interest and the interests of the United Kingdom would be substantially ... back over to its neighboring island nation of Mauritius was temporarily called off at the last moment ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer emphasised the base's critical role in national security and intelligence operations.

The deal was halted by last-minute legal action - now that is overturned, a government lawyer says "everybody is standing by" to sign the agreement.

A British court has blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, hours hours before the agreement was due to be signed. The U.K. has agreed to hand ...

Document - Today, the United States welcomed the historic agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Mauritius on the future of the British Indian Ocean Territory--specifically, the ...

He said “the public interest and the interests of the United Kingdom would be substantially ... The U.K. has agreed to hand Mauritius the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a ...

Britain is set to sign a deal ceding sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while also securing the future of the U.K.-U.S. Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, media reported ...