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Biden visits Britain ahead of NATO summit

US President Joe Biden was in Britain on Monday for a brief visit to his key ally during which he will meet King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before going on to a NATO summit in Lithuania. Ahead of the visit, the White House said Biden would seek to "further strengthen the close [...]

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Seychelles and India agree to increase military cooperation and training

Seychelles and India will explore new avenues of cooperation, especially in specialised training and the sharing of knowledge from military experts, said the Foreign Affairs Department. According to a communique from the Department, the new areas were part of a discussion held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Seychelles, Sylvestre Radegonde, and [...]

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UN warns Sudan faces 'full-scale civil war' as air raid kills 22

Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a "full-scale civil war" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians. The Ministry of Health reported "22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians" from what it described [...]

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Seychelles Creole Academy publishes first monolingual Creole dictionary

A total of 22,000 words from the Seychellois Creole language now feature in the newly launched monolingual dictionary, the first dictionary of its kind published by the Seychelles Creole Academy (SCA). The dictionary is the culmination of 14 years of work and is described as both a historic and symbolic effort.  Seychellois Creole is the French-based Creole [...]

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Zelensky hails 'brave' Ukraine on 500th day of war

President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed "brave" Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia's invasion on Saturday, as the war's toll mounted with eight deaths reported in Russian rocket fire. Zelensky published on social media an undated video clip of a visit to Snake Island in the Black Sea -- a symbol of Ukraine's defiance against Russia. [...]

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"Ni hao!": Confucius Institute at University of Seychelles opens language lab

Chinese language learners from Seychelles have obtained better facilities to learn about the language and culture with the opening of a language lab from Confucius Institute on Wednesday. A language lab is a facility where students learning a foreign language can access audio and visual materials to help them master the language in an interactive environment. [...]

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Seychellois Paralympics athlete receives new racing wheelchair for 2023 IOIG

A Seychellois Paralympics athlete, Gerry Theresine, received a new racing wheelchair on Thursday to better prepare for the upcoming Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG) in Madagascar. Theresine received the wheelchair from Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan in a ceremony at State House, in the presence of his mother and representatives of the National Council for the Disabled and his [...]

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Seychelles to get new beach soccer stadium to host the FIFA 2025 World Cup

A new beach soccer stadium will be built in Seychelles to host the 2025 FIFA World Cup Beach Soccer competition that the island nation will host. Seychelles was named as the host for the 13 edition of the competition in 2022 and will become the first African country to host the event. A delegation from [...]

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France star footballer Mbappe visits father's native Cameroon

France's star footballer Kylian Mbappe arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father's village. Many among the hundreds who greeted the 24-year-old forward were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team's football jersey for the occasion. They excitedly [...]

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Musk threatens lawsuit as Twitter rival Threads takes off

Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of "unlawful misappropriation of [...]

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