Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

India played a “quiet but important role in the background” during the negotiations, firmly backing the Mauritian position ...

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

The UK agreed to transfer the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius after 99 years. The initial period allows the UK to manage ...

India played an important role in forging a historic deal between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over the strategically ...

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

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

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

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...