Worldview: The UK leaves the Chagos Islands much as it governed them, with a total disregard for the feelings or aspirations ...

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 ...

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

The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands is a group of seven atolls made of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean. The islands are located 300 miles south of the Maldives. The UK is in possession ...

In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...

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

Britain's decision to hand over control of the Chagos Islands does not indicate a shift in the government's stance on its ...

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

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

On the Chagos Islands, a group of Sri Lankan migrants have been stranded for years and await news of their fate as Britain ...

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

The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on Prime Minister ...