Diplomatic sources claim that the Prime Minister's handover of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, a close ally of ...

A crack team of soldiers has been placed on round-the-clock standby to intercept any attempt to make a grab for land.

The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...

EXCLUSIVE: Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is under pressure to call an emergency debate on Monday on Labour's surrender of ...

We might as well be governed by the National Union of Students. In pursuit of their juvenile, half-witted anti-colonialism, ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

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

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

After more than half a century of dispute, the United Kingdom reached a “historic agreement” with Mauritius on Thursday ...