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Diego Garcia

since 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 14:17 UTC

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12 days ago

British Chagossians accuse UK government of betrayal over sovereignty deal

found 2025 › May › 23 (Fri) @ 17:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

Bertrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse won a brief victory in bid to stop transfer of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Two women who brought an 11th-hour legal challenge to try to stop the UK transferring …

13 days ago

UK court temporarily blocks deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius

found 2025 › May › 22 (Thu) @ 10:05 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English

Decision comes after two British nationals born on Diego Garcia claimed the islands should remain under UK control.

14 days ago

UK set to sign Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius

found 2025 › May › 22 (Thu) @ 00:50 UTC

a story from Financial Times ✅ › Financial Times

Britain will agree a multibillion pound payment to retain access to the Diego Garcia military base also used by the US

57 days ago

US deploys a third of its stealth bomber fleet for possible Iran strike after Trump warned Tehran 'you're going to be in great danger' if it does not abandon its nuclear program

found 2025 › Apr › 08 (Tue) @ 08:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Six stealth bombers flew in to the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia from Missouri last week in the 'largest single deployment in US history'.

62 days ago

US base and 4,000 of its troops are 'at risk of complete destruction' if Trump decides to strike Iran, state newspaper warns as it lays out how Tehran would launch attack with long-range drones

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 09:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Iranian armed forces-run Defra Press claimed that Iran 'certainly has sufficient weapons' to attack Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean where the US has recently bolstered military pres…

64 days ago

Donald Trump signs off UK’s handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

No 10 says deal to cede UK’s last African colony now being finalised after months of doubt

Donald Trump has signed off the UK’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Downing Street has indicate…

79 days ago

Chagossians seek legal action against UK over sovereignty deal

found 2025 › Mar › 17 (Mon) @ 21:48 UTC

a story from Euronews ⚠ › Euronews

Britain intends to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining a key UK-US military base on the island of Diego Garcia.

82 days ago

Weather tracker: Cyclone Jude causes chaos in Mozambique

found 2025 › Mar › 14 (Fri) @ 16:19 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

More than 200mm of rain fell in 24 hours, destroying 900 homes and leaving 40,000 people without power

Cyclone Jude was the third cyclone to hit Mozambique this season. First spotted as a depression l…

3 months ago

Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China

found 2025 › Feb › 21 (Fri) @ 18:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠ › International

PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional dispute

Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s leg…

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

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