The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...
A Prague hospital said it was treating five children who had swallowed magnets following a "piercing challenge" they had ...
Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is one of the most important US military bases and was used for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
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 deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...
Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...
Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.
The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...
In a historic decision this week, the UK transferred sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after more than 200 years ...