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UK to Pay Mauritius £101 Million a Year to Use Indian Ocean Base

The UK and Mauritius agreed to a deal regarding the sovereignty of an Indian Ocean archipelago, including control over a key strategic military base in the region, ending a long-running negotiation that had become a point of controversy for British premier Keir Starmer.

Houston Public Media · 1d

The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

Associated Press News on MSN · 1d

AP PHOTOS: Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a UK-Mauritius deal

LONDON (AP) — Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. She didn’t get a chance to return until she was a grandmother, and only for a visit.

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Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a UK-Mauritius deal

Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside ...

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Chagos Islands Deal With UK Backed By India And PM Modi, Says Mauritius PM Ramgoolam

Mauritius has said that India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has supported the signing of the agreement between the island ...

UK signs agreement to hand sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has signed an agreement handing over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

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Why is Britain handing over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius?

As the deal is finally signed, Sean O’Grady explores what all the fuss was about – and why it makes sense to return the archipelago to its former custodian ...

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Emirates introduces experiential Travel Store in Mauritius

Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has officially launched its new Travel Store in Port-Louis, Mauritius, ...

El Mundo on MSN1d

United Kingdom abandons its colony of the Chagos Islands, but maintains the Diego Garcia airbase, which gives the key to the Indian Ocean to the USA

The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

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