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

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...

Mauritius's prime minister said Tuesday that his country had reached a newly renegotiated deal with Britain over control of ...

Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Security analysts are divided over the deal. Some insist it ...

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 ...

A US Air Force B-1B bomber takes off from the Diego Garcia military base on a strike mission against Afghanistan in 2001 Credit: DoD / AFP Mr Ramful said his country would appoint a UN ambassador ...

According to a Downing Street spokesperson, Starmer “underlined the need for a deal to secure the military base on Diego Garcia that ensures strong protections, including from malign influence, and ...

"When the Americans realise that... Diego Garcia, their most important military base in the world, may effectively be rendered pretty useless, I think the special relationship will be fractured in ...

An FCDO spokesperson said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty and ongoing ...

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