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

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

The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...

China has a well-documented track record of leveraging debt and infrastructure projects to entrench its influence across the developing world ... footprint in the Chagos archipelago would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...