Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

British Foreign Minister David Lammy said the deal settled the contested sovereignty of Britain’s last overseas territory in ...

Mauritius is to assume sovereignty over the Chagos Islands following a historic deal which brings a decades-long dispute with ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

Britain is giving up sovereignty of a ­remote group of islands in return for securing the long-term future of a strategically ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...