India has welcomed the agreement between the UK and Mauritius over the transfer of the Chagos Islands and said that it has ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The UK has agreed to return the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. This marks the culmination of decades-long negotiations and efforts to decolonize the archipelago.

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

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The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to give up control of islands that hold a secretive U.S. military base to ...

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Mauritius' President announced general elections for November 10. Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, who secured a ...

The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, said on Friday the island nation would hold a general ...

Britain announced on Thursday, the 3rd of October, that it would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

LONDON (AP) -- The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to ...