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

Britain set up the base on Diego Garcia after gaining control of the Chagos Archipelago in 1965 and then leased the base to the United States. The base's location allows the US to more easily ...

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

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart Navin Ramgoolam spoke directly ...

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said that figures being reported are ‘not correct’, but could not say what the final cost of ...

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said that figures being reported are ‘not correct’, but could not say what the final cost of the deal would be Negotiations on returning the Chagos Islands to ...

Accusations that Britain is preparing to double a £9billion handout for the Chagos Islands are “not correct”, a ... Britain has argued that international legal rulings on sovereignty over the ...

A statement released by Reform UK read: “There are absolutely no circumstances in which Reform would ever do a pact with ...