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Mauritius demands £800million a year and billions in reparations for controversial Chagos Islands deal By DAVID CHURCHILL, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 22:42 GMT, 29 December 2024 | Updated: 23:14 GMT, 29 December 2024 e-mail View comments Mauritius has been demanding £800million a year and ‘billions of pounds in reparations’ as part of the beleaguered Chagos Islands talks, it emerged today. Sir Keir Starmer has been facing calls to abandon his surrender of the archipelago after Mauritius’ new government rejected a proposed deal and started demanding more money. Downing Street has refused to reveal how much it has offered to pay Mauritius for a 99-year lease of the crucial Anglo-American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos atolls. But a source familiar with the talks told the Sunday Times: ‘They wanted crazy money. ‘They were talking £800million a year for as long as we wanted to keep the base there, plus billions of pounds in reparations.’ Sources close to David Lammy , the current Foreign Secretary , said UK negotiators have never ‘considered’ paying these amounts. But they did not deny that they have ever been demanded. And they refused to say how close to the demands that they have settled, simply saying that the proposed deal was ‘underpinned by a financial package which will support a new era of economic partnership between the UK and Mauritius’. Critics of surrendering sovereignty of the archipelago fear Labour is trying to rush a deal before Donald Trump re-enters the White House . Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands. Mauritius has been demanding £800million a year and ‘billions of pounds in reparations’ as part of the beleaguered Chagos Islands talks, it emerged today Sir Keir Starmer (pictured) has been facing calls to abandon his surrender of the archipelago after Mauritius’ new government rejected a proposed deal and started demanding more money Protesters voicing their opposition to the deal outside Parliament. Downing Street has refused to reveal how much it has offered to pay Mauritius for a 99-year lease of the crucial Anglo-American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos atolls The president-elect’s pick for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has warned that the deal posed ‘a serious threat’ to US national security by handing over the islands to a country allied with China. Last week new Mauritian leader, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, had a phone call with outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is also keen to get the deal across the line. The prime minister told his MPs afterwards: ‘I made him understand that we do not agree with certain things contained in the agreement concluded on October 3 by the former Mauritian prime minister and informed him that we have made a counter-proposal which will be transmitted to him.’ Days earlier his deputy had suggested that Mauritius is demanding more money to allow the continued operation of the base on Diego Garcia. Mauritius’s deputy prime minister Paul Berenger told constituents: ‘This base existed on our land, on our territory... but not only it is [about] our sovereignty. The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago ‘There are some things you can’t accept if you’re a true patriot. They are trying to make us sign and they are quibbling on a small amount.’ The Labour government insists the deal is not dead and that the new Mauritian administration is willing to do a deal. A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘An amount this high has not been considered at any point in negotiations between the UK and Mauritius.’ Keir Starmer Labour David Lammy Downing Street Share or comment on this article: Mauritius demands £800million a year and billions in reparations for controversial Chagos Islands deal e-mail Add commentORONO, Maine (AP) — Michael McNair scored 16 points to lead Boston University and Malcolm Chimezie sealed the victory with a layup with 20 seconds left as the Terriers took down Maine 59-56 on Sunday. McNair also had six rebounds for the Terriers (6-7). Kyrone Alexander scored 13 points and added five rebounds. Chimezie shot 4 of 7 from the field and 0 for 3 from the line to finish with eight points. 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Canada's top military commander calls out US senator for questioning woman's role in combatThe PML-N led government on Sunday issued a white paper on the alleged financial irregularities and mismanagement of PTI's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government, strangely at a time when it is finally engaged in holding dialogue with the opposition party to bring down political temperature. The white paper was unveiled in a press conference held in Lahore. Federal Minister for Information Atta Tarrar issued the charge-sheet of corruption and financial mismanagement, all the while ducking questions regarding PPP led Sindh government's performance. Tarar put the financial irregularity and financial loss at Rs192 billion with Rs84 billion in misclassified expenditure, Rs130 million in fraudulent payments and Rs510 million in suspicious disbursements. "The money allocated under different heads was used for political activities namely sit-ins and also to fund PTI's social media army. The K-P's total debt is Rs725 billion and by 2030, it will be over Rs2,000 billion. They require Rs355 billion just for debt servicing," he added. He said the provincial government has done nothing to reduce the debt in the last ten years. Despite much hullabaloo over dams, they have installed only a single electricity production project. Referring to a recent statement of former prime minister Imran Khan, he said the PTI founder has himself admitted that the country's economy is stabilizing under the PML-N's rule. He said the PTI has done nothing for price management. The PTI government in the K-P brought new cars despite economic stringency. Tarar said the PTI also brought universities under the control of the provincial government. He said the CM might be an excellent administrator but he is not an academic. "They have not fixed their hospitals. He said the K-P is riddled with corruption scandals, ranging from BRT scandal, to timber mafia, to tobacco mafia," he said. Strangely when the minister was asked how much the government spent on stopping the PTI from marching into the capital, he said he does not have an exact figure. He said no one in the K-P will be able to answer these questions. Responding to the press conference, Adviser to the K-P CM on Financial Affairs Muzamil Aslam said if this is the kind of allegations the PML-N is left with and if Atta Tarar is their main choice on matters, then they should give up. "The entire press conference was a pack of lies. Tarar does not know anything about economics and he should not have embarrassed himself like this. "Our total debt accumulated in the last seventy-five years. Our total debt is equal to the debt the federal government takes every year." He said for the first time in the history of the country, the K-P government would pay ten percent of total debt back to the center on January 1 which would be around Rs70 billion. "Our domestic debt is zero. We have the most cash reserve in history of around Rs150 billion and this was one fourth of our total debt." COMMENTS Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive. For more information, please see our

Feels like 1979: Nottingham Forest moves into 2nd place behind rampant Liverpool in Premier LeagueAnd single people are more likely to use mobility tools compared to those who are married, according to researchers from University College London (UCL) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Researchers looked at information from a group of more than 12,000 adults in England aged 50 to 89 who were tracked over a 13-year period. At the start of the study, 8,225 adults had no mobility difficulty and did not use mobility assistive products (MAPs). Some 2,480 were deemed to have “unmet need” and 1,375 were using mobility aids. During the follow-up period, there were 2,313 “transitions” where people went from having no mobility issues to needing some help with getting around. And 1,274 people started to use mobility aids. Compared with men, women were 49% more likely to transition from not needing mobility aids to needing to use them, according to the study which has been published in The Lancet Public Health. But were 21% less likely to go on to use mobility aids when they needed them. The authors said their study showed “barriers to access” for women. For both men and women, with every year that passed during the study period the need for mobility aids increased. People who were older, less educated, less wealthy or reported being disabled were more likely to “transition from no need to unmet need, and from unmet need to use”, the authors said, with this indicating a “higher prevalence of mobility limitations and MAP need overall among these groups”. They added: “Finally, marital or partnership status was not associated with transitioning to unmet need; however, single people were more likely to transition from unmet need to use compared with married or partnered people.” Jamie Danemayer, first author of the study from UCL Computer Science and UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub, said: “Our analysis suggests that there is a clear gender gap in access to mobility aids. “Though our data didn’t ascertain the reason why participants weren’t using mobility aids, other research tells us that women are often more likely than men to face obstacles such as cost barriers as a result of well-documented income disparities between genders. “Many mobility aids are designed for men rather than women, which we think may be a factor. “Using mobility aids can also make a disability visible, which can impact the safety and stigma experienced by women, in particular. “There’s a critical need for further research to identify and break down the barriers preventing women from accessing mobility aids that would improve their quality of life.” Professor Cathy Holloway, also from UCL, added: “Not having access to mobility aids when a person needs one can have a big impact on their independence, well-being and quality of life. “Our analysis suggests that women, in particular, regardless of other factors such as education and employment status, are not getting the support that they need.” Professor Shereen Hussein, senior author of the study and lead of the social care group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “The research provides compelling evidence of gender disparities in accessing assistive technology, suggesting that cost, design bias, and social stigma are likely to disproportionally affect women. “This underscores the need for inclusive, gender-sensitive approaches in the design, production and inclusivity of assistive technologies.”

Cooking up troubleMinnesota hunters registered 120,675 deer after the third weekend of the firearms deer season, up 6% from 2023, but down 4% from the five-year mean, or average, the Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday, Nov. 26. Deer Season A opened Saturday, Nov. 9, and ended Nov. 17 in 200- and 300-series deer permit areas (DPAs) and continued through Nov. 24 in 100-series DPAs, which are mainly in the northern and northeastern part of the state. The Season B firearms deer season in 300-series DPAs opened Nov. 23 and continues through Sunday, Dec. 1. The firearms deer harvest by region after 16 days was as follows: According to Todd Froberg, big game program coordinator for the DNR at Whitewater Wildlife Management Area in Altura, Minnesota, the harvest really only increased in the Northwest, Northeast and Central regions during the rest of the 16-day season and then in the B season in the southeast part of the state. The 200-series DPAs only had the nine-day season, and there is only one DPA in the southwest region open during the ongoing B season, Froberg said. The cumulative harvest to date, which includes archery, firearm, early antlerless, youth and special hunts, was 153,390 deer, the DNR said. That’s up 3% from 2023, but down 6% from the five-year average and down 8% from the 10-year average. Cumulative tallies by region were as follows: In related deer hunting news, Minnesota archery hunters as of Tuesday had harvested 23,047 deer, Froberg said, up 12% from last year. Crossbows, which are legal for all archery hunters in Minnesota, are making up a greater percentage of the archery harvest, Froberg says. “Crossbows are making up 47% of (the) archery harvest,” he said. “For crossbow-specific harvest, we are up 24% compared to last year’s crossbow harvest. Vertical bow harvest is up 4% compared to last year’s vertical bow harvest.” Minnesota’s muzzleloader opens Saturday, Nov. 30, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 15. Archery season continues through Dec. 31. The DNR posts both statewide and by DPA, on its website at dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/deer/management/statistics.html.The NBA world saw a blockbuster move take place on Sunday morning as the Los Angeles Lakers acquired veteran wing defender Dorian Finney-Smith and guard Shake Milton from the Brooklyn Nets. Finney-Smith was one of the hottest names on the trade market ahead of the deadline next spring and with him off the board, opposing teams will need to pivot. Read more: Lakers Land Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton in Blockbuster Deal With Nets Not many expected a deal of this magnitude to happen at this time but the Lakers wanted to improve their chances the rest of the way. This signals that they are real players and still have the potential to make more moves. But what else can we expect before the Feb. 6 trade deadline? Here is a prediction of the next few trades to happen in the NBA . Nets continue rebuild, trade forward Cameron Johnson After moving on from Finney-Smith, the Nets will now turn their sights to moving Johnson. There was talk about Brooklyn trading away guard Cam Thomas but he reportedly is loved by the ownership. It's likely that the Nets will hold onto him and he can help get the rebuild started. More news: Nets Bring Back D'Angelo Russell in Blockbuster Trade With Lakers Brooklyn has stock-pilled draft picks in recent years and could get even more from a Johnson deal. Teams such as the Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks, and others could all get involved in the potential to land the forward. Kings add to their roster, don't trade away De'Aaron Fox The Sacramento Kings have been in the news recently for firing head coach Mike Brown . There have also been rumors surrounding star guard De'Aaron Fox with all the drama going on. Read more: Lakers, Rockets Headline Potential Landing Spots For Star Guard Amid Trade Rumors However, the Kings love Fox and he loves being with Sacramento. The Kings will likely look to add more to their current team, rather than tearing things down. Someone like Kyle Kuzma from the Washington Wizards could make sense here. Nuggets make splash, land All-Star for playoff push The Nuggets have been looking around the league for more firepower to add to their current team. This includes them poking around trade talks for some All-Star-level players. More news: Blockbuster Trade Proposal Has Nuggets Land $215M All-Star Denver wants to get back to being a true title contender and adding more talent is the way to go. The Nuggets will add another star, possibly such as Zach LaVine or Jimmy Butler, to give them a better chance come playoff time. Bulls finally move Nikola Vucevic to contender The Chicago Bulls have been trying to enter into a rebuild for a few years now. However, after they moved guard Alex Caruso this past offseason, the path became clearer. One of the biggest trade pieces they have is center Nikola Vucevic and he could easily help a contender. Teams such as the Memphis Grizzlies, Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, or Indiana Pacers could make sense here. Trail Blazers move multiple veterans in separate deals The Trail Blazers are one of the more interesting teams ahead of the trade deadline. They have a few veteran pieces that could be moved such as Jerami Grant, Robert Williams III, Anfernee Simons, and even Deandre Ayton. The time is now for Portland to move one of, if not all these players. Teams like the Lakers, Mavericks, Rockets, Magic, and others could all be involved here. More news: Trade Proposal Has Magic Land $29M Star to Bolster Playoff Chances For more on the NBA at large, go check out Newsweek Sports .