Tuesday briefing: How the UK left 64 asylum seekers stranded on an island in the Indian Ocean

In today's newsletter: As a judge finds the government unlawfully detained Tamils on Diego Garcia, we look at the geopolitcs that led to...
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from: The Guardian

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