Tanzanian authorities said Thursday that the pilots who flew a Precision Air plane which crashed into Lake Victoria last November failed to heed warnings from an automatic "pull up" alarm system. Nineteen people died when the plane plunged into Africa's largest lake on November 6 last year, with police blaming bad weather for Tanzania's worst [...]
Violent protests against pension reform in France led to the postponement Friday of King Charles III's trip to the country, highlighting the growing security and political problems faced by President Emmanuel Macron. Charles' first foreign trip as monarch had been intended to highlight warming Franco-British relations, but it has instead served to underline the severity [...]
The Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF) and the French Armed Forces in the Southern Indian Ocean Zone (FAZSOI) will continue close collaboration in the battle against the trafficking of illicit drugs in the region, they reaffirmed on Friday. The continued collaboration was part of discussions held onboard the French vessel Champlain where Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan met [...]
Seychelles and other developing countries will have the same right to access and benefit from resources found in the high seas through a new United Nations high seas agreement. Member states of the UN agreed on a text for the setting up of an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law [...]
The Seychelles Meteorological Authority (SMA) signed an agreement with the country's two largest telecommunication companies that expect to bring faster disaster risk alerts to the public. The memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday by Vincent Amelie, the chief executive of SMA along with the directors of Airtel Seychelles and Cable & Wireless Seychelles during a workshop [...]
North Korea on Friday claimed it had tested an underwater drone capable of carrying a nuclear warhead that could create a "radioactive tsunami" -- however analysts urged skepticism. Source: Latest CNN News
Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi's relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production. Source: Latest CNN News
CNN's Selina Wang compares the differences between TikTok and Douyin, the heavily censored version used in China. Source: Latest CNN News
CNN's David McKenzie explains how a group of hospital workers managed to prevent Ukrainian orphans from being taken by the Russians. Source: Latest CNN News
Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects. Source: Latest CNN News
