Enduring disputed claims over Diego Garcia, an atoll within the Chagos archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean ... UK will ...

The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean ... estimated 750 ...

the largest of the disputed Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) – long claimed by Mauritius – and site of a secretive military base leased by the UK to the US.

On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean ... base has served as a launchpad for US military operations in the Middle East, as a refuelling point for Air ...

while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. However, Ramgoolam, who was elected in ...

DIEGO GARCIA - The hot, humid air gusts over the pier and through the red, rusty cranes sitting atop a blue cargo ship, which casts long shadows on the workers down below. Crusty leather gloves ...

Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

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The strategically important Indian Ocean archipelago will not change ... year lease of Diego Garcia – one of the islands, which hosts a US-UK air base – and said that was why he pushed to ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US ... Islands are a tiny group of some 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, south of India between Africa and Australia. Britain set up the ...