Chagos Islands

since 2025 › Jan › 18 (Sat) @ 08:21 UTC

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75 days ago

Donald Trump's former national security adviser brands Chagos Islands deal a 'travesty' and warns about threat from China if Keir Starmer pushes ahead with ceding sovereignty

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 21:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Herbert McMaster, a retired US Army lieutenant general, said handing the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius would be a 'significant strategic disadvantage'.

76 days ago

Labour ministers to create a 'development fund' for Mauritius as part of Keir Starmer's £9billion deal to lease Chagos Islands

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 07:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Sir Keir Starmer 's controversial agreement will include money for 'strategic projects' to improve the lives of Mauritians including a 'Chagossian Trust Fund' paid for by the UK.

79 days ago

Keir Starmer is branded a 'danger to the US' amid mounting American backlash at push to hand over Chagos Islands sovereignty, cosying up to China and caving to international court on Israel

found 2025 › Feb › 14 (Fri) @ 17:08 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Keir Starmer was accused of either 'malice or incompetence' in a brutal Wall Street Journal article accusing him of undermining the Special Relationship.

80 days ago

Keir Starmer should ditch multi-billion pound surrender of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and spend the money on defence instead, former army chief urges

found 2025 › Feb › 13 (Thu) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Lord Dannatt said it was 'very hard to find good news' in the deal, which critics say would put Britain and its allies' security in danger.

81 days ago

Mauritius could 'rent' islands near crucial Chagos military base to China and spark Cuban Missile crisis style confrontation unless UK hands over sovereignty and £9bn, claims minister

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 18:18 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty said doubts about the legal status of the Chagos Islands meant there would be 'no basis to remove' a hostile power.

Why giving up the Chagos Islands could cost Britain £9bn – podcast

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 06:23 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Eleni Courea discusses the UK’s historic deal to sign sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and why some inside the Labour party are now regretting it. Campaigner Olivier Bancoult outlines …

82 days ago

‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 09:29 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

Mauritius awaits Trump's approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what's in it for them.

84 days ago

Global leaders have a selective view of sovereignty. It matters, as long as it’s in their interests | Kenan Malik

found 2025 › Feb › 09 (Sun) @ 10:16 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people’s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern

Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn’t. And it doesn’t whe…

Trump has not decided whether to back UK’s Chagos Islands deal

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 23:43 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Sir Keir Starmer sought US president’s blessing for lease that will affect joint military base on Diego Garcia

85 days ago

‘The world wants more Britain’: David Lammy on Trump, tariffs, Gaza and the Chagos Islands

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 13:57 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The foreign secretary’s diplomatic skills are being sorely tested as he seeks to turn his department into a global force

David Lammy was never a politician to mince his words. He has previously descri…

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