LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in an agreement Britain says will also ensure the future of a strategically important U ...

Mr Tuckwell said many of the Chagossian arrivals have children, and the council had a legal responsibility to find temporary ...

After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This ...

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base By Fatima Al-Kassab Published May 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM CDT ...

People demonstrate outside the High Court in London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, after a British court blocked the U.K. from transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius hours before ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the ...

Chagos deal sparks uproar as the U.K. pays 30 billion pounds to Mauritius, loses critical territory and gives way to China's ...

Campaigners launch judicial review to stop Government from signing away islands without consulting Chagossians ...

In 2017 China abstained on a UN General Assembly vote which asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to deliver an ...

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.

Members of the House of Lords stress that renewal of the deal in 99 years will depend on the goodwill of the then-government ...

David Lammy criticises a Reform MP for promoting "conspiracy theories" about the Chagos Islands. Discover more about his fierce response.