Mauritius officials have said they will “spare no effort” in decolonising the Chagos Islands shortly after it emerged that the UK government had shelved plans to hand over the islands. Despite ...

During the planning for President Trump’s latest strike on Iran, Britain refused to allow the United States to launch air attacks from the U.S.-U.K. base at Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean ...

In 2024, the United Kingdom agreed to possibly one of the worst real estate deals in recorded history. It agreed to give Mauritius, a small country in the Indian Ocean, ownership of the Chagos Islands ...

Donald Trump has accused the United Kingdom of “stupidity” over its plan to hand over ownership of the Chagos Islands, including the US air base on Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. “Shockingly, our ...

LONDON – A startled British government on Tuesday defended its decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the plan, which his ...

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” wrote the 19th-century English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his play “Richelieu.” Little would the playwright have imagined that something yet to be invented ...