The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

David Lammy will meet Donald Trump’s secretary of state in a last-ditch effort to convince the US to back the Chagos Islands deal, The Telegraph understands. The Foreign Secretary is expected to meet ...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy will discuss the Chagos Islands at a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio later this month, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The two officials are set to ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...

David Lammy is expected to meet Donald Trump's secretary of state in a desperate bid to keep the controversial Chagos Islands deal on track. The UK's Foreign Secretary has reportedly pencilled ...

Sir Keir Starmer is determined to push through an agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands despite national security fears from the White House. Allies of Donald Trump are reportedly ...

He has also said that a prospective deal on returning the Chagos islands to Mauritius would ensure the US maintained its strategic base on the Indian Ocean archipelago. "There is a disinformation ...

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Under the proposed agreement, the UK would hand over control of the Chagos Islands, the strategic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. The remote grouping includes Diego Garcia ...

David Lammy is to make a last-ditch attempt to persuade Donald Trump’s new administration to back Labour’s planned giveaway of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The Foreign Secretary will ...