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The newly elected prime minister of Mauritius has ordered an independent review of his predecessor's provisional deal with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands.Navin Ramgoolam, who came to power earlier this month, has previously been critical of the confidential agreement, which is yet to be ratified. He reportedly expressed continued reservations after a meeting with the UK's national security adviser Jonathan Powell on Monday over the islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory. Image: Navin Ramgoolam. Pic: Reuters Under the reported terms of the draft deal, the UK will hand over sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius, except for the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, which will remain under...

An American football player has died a month after suffering a head-on-head collision during a college game.Medrick Burnett Jr was playing for Alabama A&M University against Alabama State University on 26 October - the day before his birthday - when the severe injury occurred. His sister said on his GoFundMe page that the 20-year-old linebacker had "several brain bleeds and swelling of the brain" following the collision in Birmingham, a city in the southeastern US state.In a "last resort" to save his life, Dominece James said he'd had a craniotomy - the surgical removal of part of the skull to expose the brain.Alabama A&M athletic department announced his death on Wednesday but later sent a retraction, saying the news had come via "an immediate family member". Jefferson County coro...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested a ceasefire deal could be struck if Ukrainian territory he controls could be taken "under the NATO umbrella" - allowing him to negotiate the return of the rest later "in a diplomatic way".In an interview with Sky News's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, the Ukrainian president was asked to respond to media reports saying one of US president-elect Donald Trump's plans to end the war might be for Kyiv to cede the land Moscow has taken to Russia in exchange for Ukraine joining NATO. Mr Zelenskyy said NATO membership would have to be offered to unoccupied parts of the country in order to end the "hot phase of the war", as long as the NATO invitation itself recognises Ukraine's internationally recognised borders.He appeared to accept occupied eastern parts of ...