Dugasse, 68, has spent most of her life in the Seychelles and the U.K., wondering what it would be like to set foot on the ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

LONDON (AP) — Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands.

A ceremony transferring sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius was called off ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The UK agreed to cede an Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius while retaining control of a strategic military base on one of ...

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The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

The US and UK will maintain a key military base on the island for 99 years, under the multi-billion pound deal.

The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

The court declared as unlawful the 1965 forcible detachment of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and its incorporation ...