Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was fined on Monday for disobeying police at a rally last month, but said she acted out of necessity due to the climate crisis. The 20-year-old appeared in court in the southern Swedish city of Malmo after 11 am (0900 GMT) on Monday, without responding to questions from reporters. The [...]
Seychelles has commenced a four-day civilian roster verification and recruitment exercise as a member of the Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF). The aim of the exercise is to re-register civilians who have already participated in EASF capacity building exercises in the past. As a member of EASF, Seychelles benefits from training that is for military [...]
Seychelles and China will continue to work together in the education sector with particular interest in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as per an agreement signed last year. A Chinese delegation of 11 members, including senior officials from the education sector, directors from Dongying and Xianyang vocational institute, along with political officials, came [...]
Last-ditch efforts to reach a compromise dragged into the night as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to put a key plank of his government's controversial judicial reforms to the vote Monday after undergoing surgery to fit a pacemaker. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Jerusalem to oppose Netanyahu's proposal to curb [...]
Locals and tourists fled hotspots on the Greek island of Rhodes on Sunday, as firefighters, backed by water jets and helicopters, battled a blaze that sparked the country's largest-ever fire evacuation. Wind gusts of up to 49 kilometres (31 miles) per hour were complicating efforts to bring the flames under control. The island of Rhodes [...]
Visitors to the islands of Seychelles now have a wider choice and access to local artworks at affordable prices with the opening of a new gallery at the Domaine Val de Pres, arts and craft village, Au Cap, on Mahe Island. Located in the beautiful 'Grann Kaz' plantation house – a large wooden house dating back [...]
Britain's ruling Conservatives on Friday held the former seat of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but saw hefty majorities in two other constituencies evaporate as voters responded to scandals during his tenure and high inflation. Rishi Sunak had been expected to become the first prime minister in decades to lose three parliamentary seats in one day. [...]
An opportunity has opened for one Seychellois national to advance their ocean-related project or idea in a five-day learning visit to the Nekton Foundation in Oxford, United Kingdom (UK), through an Ocean Innovation Award launched by the Danny Faure Foundation. A first of its kind, the Ocean Innovation Award seeks to motivate Seychellois to come [...]
Team Seychelles going to the 9th Francophone Games in the Democratic Republic of Congo was given its official send-off in a small ceremony on Thursday afternoon at L'Escale Resort Marina and Spa on Mahe. The Games are scheduled to take place in Kinshasa from July 28 to August 6, and Seychelles has 16 athletes, as well as a [...]
The Electoral Commission of Seychelles has inaugurated a Delimitation of Boundaries Committee tasked with providing data necessary to establish how extensively electoral boundaries are to be adjusted in the country. The chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Danny Lucas, outlined on Friday that it is important to look at the number of inhabitants in each electoral [...]
