By Alistair Smout, Michael Holden and Villen Anganan LONDON/PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Britain said on Thursday it would cede ...

Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of ...

India played a “quiet but important role in the background” during the negotiations, firmly backing the Mauritian position ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

The UK agreed to transfer the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius after 99 years. The initial period allows the UK to manage ...

The United Kingdom agrees to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. India and the United States support ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Critics in Britain fear this would open access to China, but a British-US military base will remain even after Mauritius ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

It will see Mauritius assume sovereignty over the islands, with the UK authorised to exercise the sovereign rights of ...

The United States on Thursday welcomed the "historic agreement" between the United Kingdom and Mauritius on the exercise of ...