Sir Keir Starmer said legal certainty was required over the future of the Diego Garcia military base. Sir Keir Starmer warned ...

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

Mauritius has indicated that it has secured more concessions from the United Kingdom in the Chagos Islands deal, raising the ...

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said that figures being reported are ‘not correct’, but could not say what the final cost of ...

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

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

The UK government has denied claims made by the prime minister of Mauritius that it faces paying billions more under a ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is a “betrayal of the British people”, Priti Patel has claimed.

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing ...