Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

Britain will give U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's new government the chance to review a deal with Mauritius over the ...

Labour won't finalise a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until Donald Trump is back in the White House, Downing Street has said. No10 admitted it was 'obviously now ...

UK will wait until Donald Trumps in inauguration to sign off deal with Chagos Islands Credit: AP/ PA The UK will not sign off a deal to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until ...

The UK's planned handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius should be considered by incoming US President Donald Trump before it goes ahead, Downing Street has said. Efforts were made to get the ...

The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted. The British government ...

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands - where there is a joint US-UK military base - to Mauritius. The UK announced in October it would ...

Mauritius is poised to sign off a deal to take control of the Chagos Islands from the UK as early as tomorrow amid claims Labour will pay billions to cede British sovereignty. Keir Starmer has ...

Mauritius, which gained independence from the UK in 1968, claimed the Chagos islands as its own territory despite the fact that they are nearer to the Maldives and the Seychelles. Mr Sands helped ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Sir Keir Starmer's deal to hand back the Chagos Islands has been thrown into chaos amid reports Britain will wait for Donald Trump's approval. The UK wanted to secure an agreement with Mauritius ...