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The government has argued that international legal rulings on sovereignty over the archipelago mean the UK has to cede the islands to Mauritius. Show comments Advertisement
Donald Trump’s administration will be consulted before any deal for the UK to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is finalised, Downing Street said. Allies of the US president-elect have ...
The future of the Chagos Islands and a secretive UK/US airbase is set to be an early flashpoint between Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer as the president-elect seeks to veto the controversial ...
Keir Starmer’s attempts to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius with a highly controversial deal appear to be on a knife edge after the two governments issued a joint statement admitting ...
Donald Trump may still veto Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, despite the PM’s plans to push ahead with the deal. With reports that the UK ...
Diego Garcia, now the site of an important US armed forces base.. The Chagos Islands are a cluster of 60 islands and seven atolls in the Indian Ocean.First occupied by lepers from Mauritius, France acquired the islands in the late 18th century, and slaves were brought in from Africa and India to maintain coconut plantations placed there.
Britain will give U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's new government the chance to review a deal with Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-British military base in the Indian Ocean, a spokesman for ...
However, Trump’s advisers and critics of the deal in the UK are concerned about the status of the crucial base, a potential block on nuclear weapons being taken to the island and the possibility ...