The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

Keir Starmer was accused of either 'malice or incompetence' in a brutal Wall Street Journal article accusing him of ...

The PM's reasoning of national security for his Chagos Islands deal has been "blown out of the water" by one of his own - as ...

The third argument critics of the deal make is to look askance at the absence of Chagossians from the negotiation. This claim ...

Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

Amidst the backdrop of a contentious deal between Mauritius and the UK regarding the future of the Chagos Islands, revelations have emerged of US intervention in the ongoing negotiations. The Mauritia ...

There has been scepticism about the proposed deal among allies of Mr Trump, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, but the ...

President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

For the record, China has pursued a decadely war of strategic position in the South China Sea, turning reefs into artificial islands and seizing Filipino waters. In 2016, the U.N.'s Hague's ...