Donald Trump should reject the United Kingdom's bad deal to transfer its sovereignty over Diego Garcia island to Mauritius. Only China would benefit.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy supports the U.S. administration's review of a deal regarding a military base in the ...

International power rivalry is playing out in the Indian Ocean region, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on ...

were reportedly detained near the Diego Garcia island — a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) — on January 9 for allegedly crossing the maritime boundary. Sources said eight of ...

International power rivalry is playing out in the Indian Ocean region, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on ...

another group of ten fishermen from Thothoor village in the state has been allegedly arrested by the British Navy near Diego Garcia Island in the central Indian Ocean. Officials from the Tamil ...

Britain struck a deal in October to hand over control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia ... in the Indian Ocean, under a 99-year ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...