内容摘要：Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a year.

Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a key military base for £101m a year.

Daré is set to talk about her latest book And So I Roar at Grays Library on 3 June.Chakrabarti will be speaking to Pam Cox, Labour MP for Colchester, about her book Human Rights: The Case for The Defence at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford on 5 June.

Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, will be visiting the University of Essex in Colchester the following day to talk about her new memoir A Woman Like Me.The events are due to be held in Harwich, Thurrock, Colchester, Chelmsford, Shenfield and Maldon from 28 May to 30 June.A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for corruption.

Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m)of public funds by the Congolese Constitutional Court on Tuesday, alongside Deogratias Mutombo, the former governor of the DR Congo's central bank.

Matata's lawyer told Reuters news agency that the ruling was unfair and politically motivated.

Part of the funds were taken from a major agricultural development intended to tackle the country's chronic food shortages.Bosses declined to confirm any potential price rises due to higher import taxes, saying raising prices could be a "last resort."

Brian Cornell, chief executive of Target, said pricing decisions would depend on the retailer's efforts to source more products in the US and reduce its reliance on China."That is going to play a very important role," he said following the company's results.

Unlike its rival Walmart, which generates the bulk of its revenues from selling grocery items like bananas, milk, toilet paper, and shampoo, Target's big sellers are mostly in non-essential goods, such as home furniture and beauty products.It sources the majority of such products from China, with 30% of its store-label goods from the country. That is down from 60% in 2017, but analysts have said the impact of higher import tariffs on goods from the country will be difficult to navigate.