Here, in short, is an opportunity to right a historic wrong while at the same time preserving the most important Western base in the region.

The incoming Trump administration in the US could be preparing to lock horns with the Labour government over the Chagos ...

The statement in the House of Lords by Foreign Office minister Baroness Chapman of Darlington on the transfer of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, on Thursday 14 November. We use ...

The Chagos Islands lie roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 1,600 km to the south of the southern tip of India.

Back in October, the government struck an agreement with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. The deal ...