Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south ...

Duqm adds an important node to a growing network of facilities in the Indian Ocean held by actors with interests in preserving the status quo.

The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are part of the Australian Indian Ocean territories, almost 3,000km northwest of Perth. Two of the islands are inhabited — West Island and Home Island. And it also happens ...

It is one of the most remote islands in the Indian Ocean, lying 600km east of its nearest ... And it's worth taking a boat out to Île aux Cocos, an uninhabited island where seabirds gather ...

An Indian Ocean Territories Administration spokesperson ... army can do pretty much what they like," he said. On the Cocos (Keeling) Islands the Commonwealth ultimately acts as both state and ...