GENEVA (4 October 2024) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday welcomed the announcement that, following two years of negotiations, the United Kingdom and Mauritius agreed to ...
At this point in history, the United States is the world’s only superpower. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the number ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
The population was cleared to make way for the large Diego Garcia military base from the late 1960s .Mauritius is demanding ...
The former prime minister said the deal, which saw Britain hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, is a ‘terrible, terrible idea geo-strategically’ ...
An extraordinary blame game has erupted dragging in Liz Truss and James Cleverly following Sir Keir Starmer’s shock decision ...
Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign secretaries would ...
It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering – how generous of them – to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...
The UK is “resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories”, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said ...
Officially, the United States has given its blessing to the agreement with Mauritius. Behind closed doors, senior officials ...
Exclusive: A group of indigenous Chagossians are planning to stage a protest over the decision to hand the archipelago over ...