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

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

There has been scepticism about the proposed deal among allies of Mr Trump, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, but the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

Senior politicians in Mauritius have described the £9 billion Britain is expected to pay to hand over the Chagos Islands as ...

A British minister has dismissed media claims that the UK's lease payments for the Diego Garcia military base to Mauritius ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Join the NonStop Local Chord group and always be in the know. The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island ...

Sir Chris Bryant appears to undermine the PM’s case for the controversial move after saying a UN body could not close ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

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 ...