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

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval from the White House. A spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...

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

Beginning last month, the B-2 bombers were sent to the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago as part of the U.S.

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

A chunk of British Indian Ocean Territory is the remote Chagos archipelago, embroiled in a long-running dispute between the U.K. government and Mauritius. The largest Chagos island hosts the joint ...

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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.

Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed UK territory that is home to a major US military base, the UK government said Tuesday.