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UK agrees to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius

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...