The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

Far from talking about the chimes of Big Ben, UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer has been told by US senator John Kennedy to “put down the bong” over the move to hand over control of the Chagos ...

President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

In its written submission to the ICJ on Chagos, China said it supported the “decolonisation” of the territory. The Chagos Islands have never been under Mauritian control and were separate ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands is so “outlandish and irrational” the Government could be challenged over it in court, a former attorney general has warned.

The Chagos Islands deal has been hailed as necessary to avoid a significant conflict with one of Britain's adversaries. Stephen Doughty, minister for the British overseas territories, said Russia ...

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir Starmer's Chagos Islands deal will cost the British taxpayer £52bn over 99 years. The Reform UK leader made the claim at a rally in Wiltshire today. He also took ...

Instead, the crossbench peer said Sir Keir should explore handing control of the Chagos Islands to the US, adding that it is in the Americans’ interests to maintain control of it. Asked whether ...