The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Allowing China to establish even a minimal footprint in the Chagos archipelago would dramatically shift the balance of power in the region and weaken U.S. deterrence. Trump must make it clear to ...

The Chagos Islands deal has been hailed as necessary ... near the existing US military base, if the archipelago isn't given to Mauritius. He wrote in The Times: "If you value UK national security ...

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

Lord Dannatt, former chief of the general staff, said it is “very hard to find good news” in the prime minister’s deal to cede control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, and raised questions ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands is so “outlandish ... for David Cameron when he was prime minister. The archipelago is claimed by Mauritius, which argues that the ...

Peter Lamb, the MP for Crawley – where thousands of Chagossians moved in the 1960s – says the plan is unfair on its residents A Labour MP has broken ranks to say the Chagos Islands deal is one ...

A judge working for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) who ruled against the UK over the Chagos Islands is a ... never been under their control. The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK ...

“LEFTY lawyers” who “hate and are ashamed” of the UK are partly to blame for the government possibly paying slavery reparations, an MP has said. The UK has been negotiating a deal with ...

Instead, the crossbench peer said Sir Keir should explore handing control of the Chagos Islands to the US, adding that it is in the Americans’ interests to maintain control of it. Asked whether Sir ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home ... He was born on Peros Banhos, one of only three of the archipelago's 55 islands inhabited when Britain began expelling people.