The past is riddled with hole-in-the-corner deals. France ceded Mauritius to Britain in 1814 and Britain followed with a complex series of manoeuvres of dubious morality ...

The domain .io has been a constant presence in the tech sphere. It is tied to the British Indian Ocean Territory, a British ...

The UK decision was welcomed by India and the US, and shows a capacity for fresh thinking. But the transfer of sovereignty must be handled carefully.

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

The UK has made a foolish trade of hard power for soft, which will quickly evaporate, and gained nothing in return.

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

An interstate arbitration that ended a decade ago over the UK's conduct in relation to the strategically important Chagos ...

When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian Ocean territories, there was no logic or reason why the islands should be ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African ...

Mauritius is getting sovereignty over the remote Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but Britain will continue to ...