The deal will allow people displaced decades ago to make way for an airbase to return home.

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people...

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to...

The deal – reached after years of negotiations – will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move. ITVX The...

The deal includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, which is used by the United States as a military base.

Britain is giving up sovereignty of a remote group of islands in return for securing the long-term future of a strategically important military base.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

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

The Chagos Islands will be part of Mauritius, but the thousands of islanders who were evicted by Britain in the 1960s don't see any clear path home.