Maldives has opposed the United Kingdom’s agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, asserting its own historical sovereignty over the archipelago. President Mohamed Muizzu’s office ...

A court has delivered delivered a landmark judgment in a long-running legal battle over the future of the Chagos Islands, in ...

Trump has changed his tune on the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, citing concerns over the fate of the U.S ...

Yet, it reminds us that the stakes in the Iran war are rising.   That has prompted Israel to claim that Iran’s military ...

US President Donald Trump threatened to “hit and obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz ...

Mon, Mar 16, 2026 Keir Starmer has been warned not to give away the Falkland Islands after the Government paused its deal to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Ian Cameron, 68, lived on the South ...

Today’s headlines: in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, a formal presidential candidate, has left the army; The Taiwanese leader of the Kuomintang is due to visit Beijing from 7 April; The Mal ...

There is a particular kind of complacency that thrives in world politics: the belief that war can be geographically contained ...

President Donald Trump on Friday accused the United Kingdom of a “very late response” in granting permission for U.S. forces ...

The attack on the Diego Garcia facility is the first time in the war that Tehran has been reported to have used weapons with ...

Sue Farran has previously received funding from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) and the British Academy. She is affiliated with RESI (Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative) Colin Murray has ...