UK's Chagos Islands deal an 'act of great stupidity', Trump says

US President Donald Trump has described the UK's deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base as an "act of great stupidity", months after he endorsed the move.

The UK signed the £3.4bn ($4.6bn) agreement in May, under which it will retain control of a UK-US military base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia.

Trump had indicated he was prepared to back the deal.

In a post on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, the US president said it was "another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired".

स्रोत: Bbc