World Court: British handling of Chagos Islands 'unlawful'
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The World Court on Monday backed Mauritius in a colonial-era dispute over the Chagos Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to the Diego Garcia U.S. military base, saying Britain’s handling of the decolonization was “unlawful”.