Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos Islands, has been a UK and US airbase since the 1960s - Getty Russia has pushed for Mauritius ...

Mauritius is controlling spending to offset the fiscal impact of the UK announcing it won’t implement a treaty handing the ...

The US Senate’s consent would be needed for changes to the 1966 treaty that grants Britain and the US the right to use the ...

Official records reveal Thai-based crypto-currency billionaire Christopher Harborne footed the bill for the Brexit MP's ...

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Labour has told Donald Trump he cannot purchase the Chagos Islands to stop the "surrender" deal from being forced through. Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer insisted there was no option by which ...

The US could be granted powers to sink the UK's Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius after a senator put forward a new proposal ...

DONALD Trump cannot buy the Chagos Islands to unblock Britain’s stalled Mauritius deal, a minister declared today. The ...

A dramatic late intervention by a judge has thrown Sir Keir Starmer’s beleaguered plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius further into chaos. Justice James Lewis ruled from a flight at ...

It come after a minister said the UK is discussing "concerns" with the US, after President Trump criticised the deal.

The president says the UK must "not give away" Diego Garcia, shortly after the US appeared to have backed the deal.

More than a year ago, the UK agreed to grant Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which Britain has governed as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965. But the treaty to transfer ...