Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of ...

UK government has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining sovereignty of Diego Garcia airbase for an initial period of 99 years.

Around 2,000 islanders were forced to leave their homeland in the 1960s and 70s in one of the most shameful parts of ...