Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump 's wide-ranging "reciprocal" tariffs have hit a remote, disputed island hosting a key U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, although the tax appears to be a symbolic move ...

Another seemingly random region that got hit with the 10% tariff was the British Indian Ocean territory in the Chagos ...

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval ...

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he was speaking to the U.K. about a potential deal between Britain and Mauritius to transfer ...

US President Donald Trump's latest tariffs covered nearly every country in the world, including a few remote islands that ...

The Government has refused to say when it believes the deal with Mauritius for the Chagos Islands will be completed despite ...

US is amassing B-2 bombers capable of carrying 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs at a little known base in the Indian Ocean ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

The Chagos Islands were reorganized under the British Indian Ocean Territory when Mauritius ... 2,000 islanders were deported from the archipelago, which later became home to Diego Garcia.