U.S. president’s shake-up of the security apparatus has complicated scrutiny of controversial British deal over Diego Garcia ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago ... 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, south ...

Chagos islanders dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White ...

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. However, Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal agreed by his predecessor and it is yet to be ratified.

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically ... the islands could weaken Western influence in the Indian Ocean and strengthen the reach of China.

Under the terms of the deal, Britain would hand over control of the Chagos Islands – a strategically important archipelago in the Indian Ocean – to Mauritius and then lease back Diego Garcia ...