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Where islands outnumber towns and coastlines fragment into thousands of pieces, here are the countries with the most islands.
On July 4, 1959, the Cayman Islands ended their status as a Jamaican dependency and became a separate Crown Colony under ...
A British man has been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying and terror-related offences. Cypriot outlet Philenews ...
Major carriers including Emirates, Lufthansa, Air France, United, and Delta have suspended flights to the Middle East region.
A group of new Labour MPs has accused the UK government of violating international law and “betraying” British values by failing to protect LGBT+ people in the British Overseas Territories ...
What are the British Overseas Territories? These remnants of the once-mighty British Empire now amount to 14 specks scattered across the globe, from sun-soaked Caribbean islands to barren outposts ...
A mega-iceberg double the size of Greater London is on a direct collision course with a remote British island, potentially putting wildlife at risk. The world's largest and oldest iceberg, called ...
Companies registered in the British Overseas Territories exported $134mn worth of goods to Russia in 2024 in an apparent breach of UK sanctions, according to a Financial Times analysis of Russian ...
Unlike the Conservatives and Labour, which both made mention of the British Overseas Territories (BOTs) in their recent election manifestos, the Liberal Democrats made none at all in theirs.
Overseas British territories and the UK cost other countries an estimated $84 billion in lost corporate tax a year, according to TJN.
Barbados is not an overseas territory but did have HM Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state until 2021 when the country became a republic, sparking conversations about removing the British ...
British sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar or any other of our Overseas Territories is not up for negotiation. The Chagos Islands are a very different issue with a very different history.