Thousands were fleeing wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada's far north on Thursday, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway and evacuation flights took off from the airport. The order to evacuate Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories marks the latest chapter in a terrible summer for wildfires [...]
Team Seychelles has been asked to get as many medals as possible in the upcoming Indian Ocean Island Games (IOIG) in a grand sending-off ceremony on Thursday at the National Sports Council Hall at Roche Caiman. In her address at the event, the Minister for Family Affairs, Youth and Sports, Marie-Celine Zialor, said, "We have chartered [...]
Seychelles fervently disagrees with the decision of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes to maintain the island nation's rating as "partially compliant," and fears being placed back on the European Union blacklist, said a top finance official on Thursday. The Global Forum of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is the leading international body [...]
West African military chiefs are set to meet Thursday in Ghana to coordinate a possible intervention aimed at reversing Niger's coup. Alarmed by a cascade of takeovers in the region, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has decided to create a "standby force to restore constitutional order" in Niger. The meeting of the [...]
Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan on Thursday, after hundreds of Muslim men rampaged through its streets burning and ransacking churches and homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier. The violence broke out in Jaranwala, on the outskirts of the industrial city of Faisalabad, after allegations spread that Christians had desecrated the [...]
The Creative Seychelles Agency (CSA) has launched a competition to compel musical composers and dancers to build on existing Creole repertoire, which will be used as the soundtrack for the Creole Festival in October. The Agency launched the separate contemporary dance and song competitions in a press conference on Wednesday. Dancers and musicians in the [...]
Seychelles' oldest centenarian, Margaret Woodfield Pouponneau, celebrated her 111th birthday on Tuesday, in an intimate gathering. Born on August 15, 1912, in the southern district of Anse Royale, Pouponneau spent the day surrounded by loved ones at her residence in the central district of St. Louis on the main island of Mahe. A special mass presided over by Anglican priest Father [...]
The Seychelles Defence Forces are strengthening their presence in the islands of Praslin and La Digue with the transfer of the former Baie Ste Anne passenger terminal to the Seychelles Coast Guard for its base. The transfer was formalised on Tuesday with the signing of an agreement by the Chief of Defence Forces, Brigadier [...]
Young and ambitious, the son of Comoros President Azali Assoumani has all the trappings of a leader in waiting. As the ruling party of the small Indian Ocean archipelago gathered to appoint a new secretary general at the weekend, many thought the top job would go to Nour El Fath Azali, 39. Azali himself -- [...]
Rescuers searched Tuesday for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in the Himalayas. Flooding and landslides are common and cause widespread devastation [...]
