President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

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

But both accept they must also get the approval of the United States, which operates a military base on the largest of the Chagos islands, Diego Garcia. Although Mauritius and Britain have ...

In October, the Government announced that Mauritius will be sovereign over the Chagos islands, and then lease back the Diego Garcia military base. But allies of US president-elect Donald Trump ...

Conservative Post editor Claire Bullivant, one of the letter’s organisers and signatories, told The Independent that the campaign had wider significance beyond the row over the Chagos Islands.

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The true cost of Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal to Britain is £52 billion, Nigel Farage claimed on Sunday. The Reform UK leader warned that the price of signing away the islands to Mauritius ...

It’s closing anyway. Britain's government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald ...