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

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much as President Trump uses unpredictability as a diplomatic tool, I can ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A senior advisor to President Donald Trump has revealed that the US is "reviewing" the UK’s negotiations with Mauritius over ...

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

Under the proposed agreement, the UK would hand over control of the Chagos Islands, the strategic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. The remote grouping includes Diego Garcia ...

A B-1B Lancer lands after a bomber task force mission at naval station Diego Garcia on the Chagos Islands ... on our naval support facility in Mauritius”. He added: “This poses a serious ...

According to reports, Starmer and members of the outgoing Biden administration wanted to finalise the agreement to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands – including Diego Garcia – to Mauritius before ...

Diego Garcia has a controversial history. Britain seized control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony Mauritius in 1965 and evicted more than 1000 people to make way for the US military base ...