The practice is currently illegal in England and Wales and carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years. File | Photo Credit: Reuters British lawmakers will soon consider whether to give terminally ill adults a choice to end their own lives with medical assistance, in the first parliamentary move to legalise assisted dying in almost a...
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Diego Garcia: what “historic” UK deal means for US’s Indian Ocean base
The United States has applauded a landmark deal between the United Kingdom and Mauritius that secured its continued use of Diego Garcia, a vital British and American joint military outpost in the Indian Ocean. The future of the strategic atoll was addressed at the top of Britain’s announcement on Thursday of a “historic political agreement”...
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India Applauds UK-Mauritius Agreement on Chagos Archipelago Sovereignty – NewsX World
India expressed its support for the United Kingdom’s landmark decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands India expressed its support for the United Kingdom’s landmark decision to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands on Thursday, including the strategically important Diego Garcia, to Mauritius. This historic agreement is viewed as a significant step towards the...
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‘America will be furious and Beijing delighted’: How Starmer handed Chagos to China
It was immediately clear, however, that Downing Street had already anticipated the significant backlash that the decision would provoke. Just over 40 minutes later the Foreign Office sent journalists an email directing them to a statement by Joe Biden. No 10 had called in the cavalry with the US president immediately dismissing speculation that the...
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Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
The agreement follows 13 rounds of talks that began in 2022 after Mauritian calls for sovereignty were recognised by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the UN General Assembly in 2019 and 2021. The world court, as the ICJ is known, is the principle judicial organ of the UN which adjudicates disputes between nations....
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United Kingdom reaches deal to cede Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius – UPI.com
A group of Chagossians demand a return to their former home of Diego Garcia as they attend a mass hosted by Pope Francis in Port Louis, Mauritius, on Sept. 9, 2019. Under an agreement announced Thursday, the United Kingdom will cede its Chargos Archipelago colony to Mauritius but retain control of Diego Garcia, home to...
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UK agrees to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The United Kingdom agreed Thursday to return all but one of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Mauritius is an island country in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of East Africa. In 1965, Britain siphoned the Chagos Islands—an archipelago of over 60 islands in the Indian Ocean—away from Mauritius, a former U.K. colony that...
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Historic! UK gives sovereignty of Chagos Island to Mauritius; India says ‘consistently supported…’ | Today News
In a historic development, UK government has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining sovereignty of Diego Garcia for an initial period of 99 years, and will pay Mauritius an undisclosed rent. Chagos Islands is an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, and the deal...
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In Historic Move, UK Gives Up Sovereignty Of Chagos Islands To Mauritius, Keeps Military Base In Diego Garcia
New Delhi: Britain today said it will give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but will keep its strategic joint military base with the US in Diego Garcia. “Following two years of negotiation, this is a seminal moment in our relationship and a demonstration of our enduring commitment to the peaceful resolution of...
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United Kingdom: 2025 Gold And New Silver Sovereign Range Launched Featuring Royal Arms And St George
It was in 1489 when England’s first Tudor Monarch, King Henry VII ordered a ‘new money of gold’ that would serve to symbolise the might of his impressive dynasty. That large gold coin was known as The Sovereign, and it has since evolved to become one of the world’s most distinctive and recognisable coins. More...
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UK to hand sovereignty of Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius – Times of India
Fuel tanks at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago. (Reuters Image) NEW DELHI: The United Kingdom on Thursday announced that Britain has agreed to hand over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, situated in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius following a period of at least the...
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UK gives sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The US base on Diego Garcia stays
LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.K.-U.S. military base. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the agreement will secure the future...