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

The political agreement to return sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is a historic step in decolonization and realizing the right to self-determination guaranteed in international human ...

Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue says the handing over of Chagos Islands sovereignty to Mauritius shows the United ...

It was not there - in the USA no one is in a hurry to pull Argentina out of the debt hole. Although Miley showed that he is ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

To add insult to injury, not only has Britain promised to give the islands to Mauritius, which sold them in 1965 for £3 ...

The United Kingdom agreed on Thursday to give up control of islands that hold a secretive U.S. military base to ...

The Prime Minister said the agreement with Mauritius secures the long-term future of a joint UK-US military base.

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

When we said Monday that the contest “pits them against each other in a battle to crown the chonkiest bear,” we didn’t mean ...