A court upholds a challenge about the lawfulness of the orders to remove four men who travelled to the territory.

The Chagos islanders who returned to their homeland are seeking assurances that British patrol boats will not block vital food and medical supplies.

Exclusive: A judge has ruled from 25,000ft in the air that a temporary injunction should be placed to block the UK government from removing Chagossians who landed on their islands this week

President Donald Trump’s description earlier this month of the UK–Mauritius agreement on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands as “an act of great stupidity” briefly turned the world’s attention to the remote archipelago.

Four Chagos islanders have landed on one of the Indian Ocean archipelago's atolls to establish what they say will be a permanent settlement, a move they hope will complicate a British plan to transfer the territory to Mauritius.

On Wednesday morning, one US government official thought there was a 90 per cent chance of the US declaring war on Iran within weeks.

In May 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured that the US government, “following a comprehensive interagency review”, had determined that the UK’s planned handover of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius “secures the long-term, stable and effective operation of the joint US-UK military facility”.

Britain said Friday that sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago is a matter only between the UK and Mauritius, following objections raised by the Maldives. "Various courts, rulings and institutions have made clear that the question of sovereignty of the ...

US President Donald Trump has, in a U-turn, withdrawn US support for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s deal to hand the Chagos Islands ove.