The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

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

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

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

Families left the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Air Force base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the group of islands.

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands ... British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia.

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

Sir Keir Starmer said Diego Garcia is ‘vital to our national security’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA) National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a ...

Phillipe Sands, who compared Britain’s possession of territory to Russian invasion of Crimea, attended ceremony in 2022 ...

The foreign ministry hit back at reports that Britain would pay Mauritius up to £18bn ($22bn) to use Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean archipelago where the base is. Britain and its former ...