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Mayorkas’ claim that FEMA is tremendously prepared comes back to haunt him amid Helene aftermath U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’ words have come back to haunt him as video from earlier this year touting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) preparedness before Hurricane Helene exposed shortcomings in the organization. Mayorkas this week warned that FEMA was running out of funds as hurricane season continued to slam the southeastern United States. The organization has enough funds to deal with the aftermath of Helene but would not have enough to “make it through the season.” This warning stands in stark…

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Quick View – Contents UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius – response The UK  has announced it will relinquish control of the Chagos Islands, a remote but strategically significant archipelago in the Indian Ocean, after more than 50 years of British rule.The agreement will see the UK officially hand over the islands to Mauritius, including the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, home to a key U.S. military base used by navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft. The base has been crucial for both U.S. and UK operations in the region.The decision was revealed in a joint statement by UK…

“Every time we made a request to be heard we have been excluded,” she said, claiming UK officials said the Chagossian community could not be involved in negotiations between the two countries.

“Today, again, we’ve been excluded,” the 34-year-old postgraduate student told the BBC.

“We need to respect the rights of indigenous people.”

Ms Nellan said she would like to go back to the islands, but not under Mauritius’ control.

“Our right to self-determination – whether we want to be British citizens or Mauritian citizens at all – has been stripped today,” she said.

An extraordinary row broke out yesterday when Keir Starmer’s government announced it was handing the islands to Mauritius … Shortly after leadership rival and former security minister Tom Tugendhat tweeted it was “disgraceful” that a Tory government had started the talks in what was seen as a pointed remark against Mr Cleverly.
However, the Cleverly camp then responded with a briefing claiming it was Liz Truss who ordered the talks to start when she was prime minister.

But Truss has hit back and said it was Boris Johnson who started the talks.

The government has finally put right one of the last wrongs remaining from British colonial rule.

In the 1960s we severed the Chagos Islands from Mauritius and then expelled hundreds of islanders so we could lease the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia to the US military.

This was later judged illegal by the international courts and criticised by the UN. Now, at last, we have agreed to hand the islands back to Mauritius.

Confected Tory anger at this should be dismissed as the hypocritical rantings of a party which still hankers after empire.

WHAT a day of ignominy for the new ­Government — not just giving away strategically vital British territory but handing taxpayers an endless bill for the privilege.

Labour has taken mere weeks to capitulate entirely, despite Mauritius’s historic claim having no validity — it never owned the islands — nor being legally binding.

The Chagos debacle weakens us militarily while, incredibly, forcing us to pay unknown sums to Mauritius every year.

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UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase LONDON/PORT LOUIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military base, and which could also pave the way for people displaced decades ago to return home. U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed the deal, saying it would secure the effective operation of Diego Garcia, a strategically important airbase in the Indian Ocean, into the next century.But critics in Britain said it was a capitulation which played into the…

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