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UK has leased Diego Garcia to US until 2036 as an "essential" military base. ICJ advisory opinion is "not legally binding". Urges states to abstain or vote no. Maldives now takes the floor
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UK says Chagos is a “bi-lateral territorial dispute.”
Claims ICJ has overstepped its mandate by intervening in a dispute without consent of both states.
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Beatrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse have submitted a UN complaint against Labour’s deal with Mauritius, highlighting how exclusion from ancestral lands is denying their right of return and justice for historical abuses, reports ELIZABETH MISTRY


