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 ...

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

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the ...

Under the terms of the agreement, Mauritius would gain sovereignty over the entire Chagos Archipelago, while the UK and US would retain control over the military base on Diego Garcia under a ...

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

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

Sir Keir’s Government plans to hand the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius but pay to lease back the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Without legal certainty, the base cannot ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Under the proposed agreement, the UK would hand over control of the Chagos Islands, the strategic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. The remote grouping includes Diego Garcia ...

Sir Keir’s Government plans to hand the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius but pay to lease back the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. The Government argues that international legal ...