The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

Xue Hanqin was one of the international judges who ruled Britain should hand the strategically important territory to ...

Taxpayer money spent on bespoke programme despite country’s demands for Britain to give up the Indian Ocean territory ...

UK taxpayers spent £1.3 million out of the foreign aid budget on a diversity scheme in Mauritius amid negotiations over the ...

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

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

Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no ...

The UK splashed £1.3million of taxpayer funds on a diversity scheme in Mauritius while conducting the Chagos Islands' ...

Is Daylight Saving Time (DST) in effect in British Indian Ocean Territory?

2. Britain detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius — a former colony that became independent three years later — to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The UK government gave ...