{"id":78541,"date":"2025-05-22T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deal-to-hand-over-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-can-go-ahead-uk-court-rules-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:43:52","slug":"deal-to-hand-over-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-can-go-ahead-uk-court-rules-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/deal-to-hand-over-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-can-go-ahead-uk-court-rules-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius can go ahead, UK court rules | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius can go ahead, a High Court judge has ruled. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The deal was stopped by a last-minute court injunction in early hours of Thursday morning &#8211; but that was discharged just after 12:30 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>The UK wants to hand over control of the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius, before paying to lease the existing US-UK military base.<\/p>\n<p>The government welcomes the High Court lifting the injunction, saying the deal is &#8220;vital to protect the British people and our national security&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m beyond horrified and angry,&#8221; one Chagossian campaigner told the BBC &#8211; another says: &#8220;We are not giving up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Chagos #UKCourt #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius can go ahead, a High Court judge has ruled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}