Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

A British minister has dismissed media claims that the UK's lease payments for the Diego Garcia military base to Mauritius ...

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

The deal would allow the U.K. and U.S. to maintain the Diego Garcia military base. However, following a change in leadership in Mauritius, Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has expressed reservations ...

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

Sir Keir Starmer warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status of the Chagos Islands and the strategically important Diego Garcia military base ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...

Allies of the US president-elect have been critical of the deal because of implications for the strategically important Diego Garcia military base. Donald Trump’s administration will be ...