Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the rights of the weakest against the ambitions of the powerful during an audience Saturday ...

Pope Leo XIV has said he is "delighted" the UK has agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking to a delegation ...

The Pope has described Sir Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands as a “significant victory” that has repaired a ...

Leo said in French: “The renewed prospect of your return to your native archipelago is an encouraging sign and a powerful ...

Pope Leo XIV has taken a strong stance and backed exiled refugees from Chagos, the Indian Ocean archipelago where the ...

The pontiff met in the Vatican with former residents of Diego Garcia, the island in the Indian Ocean, who were removed in the ...

A boat sent by the government of Mauritius has arrived in the disputed Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, after the country accused the occupying British authorities of "crimes against ...

The higher £34.7 billion figure, released after a freedom of information request to the Government Actuary’s Department, is a ...

The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll ...

Conclusion The Chagos Archipelago is a strategically vital component of Western security’s global footprint. It has been under continuous UK sovereignty for over two centuries. A recent deal between ...

The U.K. formally detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, calling it the British Indian Ocean Territory. In 1968, Mauritius gained its independence from the U.K.