Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a year. The prime minister said the deal was the only way to maintain the base's ...

Sir Keir Starmer is due to sign a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on Thursday. Under the terms of the deal Mauritius would gain sovereignty of the islands from the UK, but allow the ...

The British government has finalised a deal to transfer ... Creole language. The UK, which has controlled the area since 1814, separated the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the ...

UK Signs Chagos Deal With Mauritius to Seal Future of US-UK Air Base By Muvija M and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Britain signed a deal on Thursday to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

The UK on Thursday signed an agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia ... The widespread interest and legal necessity of the deal is due to the strategic ...

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... birthplace once Mauritius takes control. The deal establishes a trust ...

The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British administration. The deal includes a £101 million annual payment to lease the base for 99 years, ...

The UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back the military base there for an average of £101m a year Keir Starmer says the deal - which involves leasing the ...

As we reported earlier, today's deal gives Mauritius control over the Chagos Islands and allows them to resettle the land - although not Diego Garcia, home to the UK-US military base. In an ...

LONDON — Britain on Thursday signed a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... of the strategically important U.S.-UK air base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...