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

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

Harlingen South tennis standout Diego Garcia signed his letter of intent to play at Concordia University, an NCAA Division ...

The Sooners beat Cal Baptist 8-0 in their first game of the day. After going 0 for 4 in the Sooners’ first two games in San ...

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

The British overseas territory includes the crucial military base on Diego Garcia, which would be leased back from Mauritius under the pact - originally thrashed out when Mr Jugnauth was in power.

And the former army chief criticised a core part of the deal meant to protect the top secret joint US/UK airbase on Diego Garcia, insisting a 99-year guarantee over its use is not long enough.

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Join the NonStop Local Chord group and always be in the know. The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island ...