Mauritius is pushing the UK for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and billions of dollars, but the US could scupper its plans, reports Seán Carey.

Britain split the Chagos 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 ...

The Government has refused to say when it believes the deal with Mauritius for the Chagos Islands will be completed despite Downing Street saying it was being "finalised". Foreign Office minister ...

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.

‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius. Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for the UK to hand over the archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian ... Detroit police want help finding missing 52-year-old woman.

The Chagos Archipelago - a group of seven atolls with a population of just over 4,000 - was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony.

More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to cede the archipelago to Mauritius. Those displaced at the time are not ...

Louis Olivier Bancoult was four years old in 1968 when a medical emergency took him and his family away from their island home in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The 2,000-km sea journey from Peros ...

The future of the .io domain remains up in the air after the UK finalized a treaty that puts the Chagos Islands — once the British Indian Ocean Territory — under control of Mauritius.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base.

LONDON (AP) — The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, ...