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What were the objectives and purpose of your stay in Mauritius since February 2025?** The University of Mauritius and the ...
Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago -- a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is ...
“The White House would prefer the diplomacy path to a new and revised nuclear agreement, which prevents Iran from acquiring a ...
"It appears President Trump has underestimated Iran's military capabilities," an Iranian analyst told Newsweek.
Also Read: Indo-Pacific security: India mustn’t let Diego Garcia fall off its map The aim, clearly, is to give India’s maritime strike capabilities a boost and augment its ability to patrol ...
Diego Garcia became a territory dependent on Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean that was once a British colony. In 1965, Diego Garcia was separated from Mauritius and included in the ...
To many observers, the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and ...
The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...
embroiled in a long-running dispute between the U.K. government and Mauritius. The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base. It is one of the U.S. military's ...
In a tatty office in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, Olivier Bancoult points to the tricolour flag on the wall. It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which, Diego Garcia ...
drawing to a close the tortuous process of securing the future of the UK-US military base that has been operating on Diego Garcia since 1965. It means formal sovereignty of the British Indian ...
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. Mauritius has long contested Britain’s claim to the ...