Open the Youtube video Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has described any potential handover as a "non-starter" and ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his ...

Civil servants are facing increasing pressure to leave their jobs as a deadline approaches to take a deal offered by the ...

Chagos islanders dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The Independent the US president has not given it his blessing ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come to a screeching halt under its new acting head, Scott Bessent.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart Navin Ramgoolam spoke directly for the first time about the Chagos Archipelago deal on Friday. Britain and its former colony reached a ...