The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference ...

China has made only one public statement on Chagos Islands deal - Different claims have been made as to whether or not China ...

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

U.K. envisaged the use of Chagos island as a military base. Roping in the United States (U.S.) as a partner in 1967, the U.K. allowed the U.S. to use Diego Garcia for defence purposes initially ...

it also appears to entrench their exile from Diego Garcia, the largest island ... after a last-minute injunction was granted to Chagos Islands-born British national Bertrice Pompe.

"We will never gamble with national security." Image: Aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group. Pic: AP The deal means the UK will lease the base from the Mauritian government over ...

The Chagos Islands are a remote group of over 60 islands ... The archipelago is best known for Diego Garcia, a strategic military base that has played a key role in US operations from the Vietnam ...

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

Dugasse and another Diego Garcia native, Bertrice Pompe, sought to bring legal action against the British government over the deal to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritian control. They only ...

India on Thursday welcomed the UK's decision to hand over the sovereignty of Chagos Islands including tropical atoll of Diego Garcia to Mauritius under a historic deal. The UK is giving up the ...

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control of a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia - the largest of the islands.

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control of a UK-US military base on Diego Garcia - the largest of the islands.