By Muvija M UK court blocks signing of Chagos Islands deal at last minute LONDON -Britain was temporarily blocked from concluding a deal on the Chagos Islands with Mauritius on Thursday after an eleventh-hour injunction by a London High Court judge, postponing an agreement aimed at securing the future of the U.S.-UK Diego Garcia air…
UK PM Keir Starmer (File photo) The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after a high court ruling cleared the way for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sign the controversial deal.The agreement ends decades of British control over the Indian Ocean archipelago, which has been at the centre of…
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