Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

The world’s largest island is now “central to the geopolitical, geoeconomic competition in many ways,” partly because of ...

President-elect Donald Trump is still set to be sentenced in his hush money case this week — at least for now — after a New ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and the United States.

Mauritius is 'overplaying its hand' with demands for more money to secure the Chagos Islands, a former top mandarin has ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ... Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an ...

tossing three people into the Pacific Ocean. The storm was expected to bring hurricane-force winds and waves up to 60 feet (18 meters) as it gained strength from California to the Pacific Northwest.