The UK has signed a £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control ...

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British administration. The ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

Under the agreement, the United Kingdom will pay Mauritius 101 million pounds ($136 million) per year to lease back the Chagos Island base for at least 99 years.

Some Chagos Islands-born protesters said the deal jeopardizes the limited the rights they have to visit the islands, including to tend the graves of relatives.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

Britain signed a multi-billion dollar deal on the future of the Chagos Islands with Mauritius after a last-gasp injunction ...