Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to Mariupol, the Kremlin said Sunday, his first visit to territory captured from Ukraine since the start of Moscow's invasion. Just hours after Putin visited Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the peninsula's annexation, video distributed by the Kremlin showed him landing by helicopter in Mariupol, [...]
Skydiving enthusiasts can look forward to two adrenaline-filled months, with three events scheduled in Seychelles this year from March to April. Fly Seychelles Skydiving will be organising its first event for the year, the second edition of the 'Colours of Seychelles' skydiving boogie, from March 30 to April 5, with jumps on two islands, Praslin [...]
Seychelles' interior design industry is a growing market with increasing demand coming from both the residential and commercial sectors, said a local interior designer. The owner of Homecomin' Solutions Interior Design, Rodney Elisa, shared with SNA that overall the interior design scene in Seychelles is constantly evolving. Elisa said that there are five prominent designs that [...]
The International Criminal Court on Friday announced an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on the war crime accusation of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children. The Hague-based ICC said it had also issued a warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's presidential commissioner for children's rights, on similar charges. Moscow dismissed the orders as "void." Russia is [...]
Plans to resurface the athletics track at Seychelles' main stadium, Stad Linite, are already in place, said a top sports official on Friday. The chief executive of the National Sports Council, Marc Arissol, made the statement to SNA amid concerns on the state of the track expressed by the Seychelles Athletics Federation (SAF) recently. In [...]
A group of women from Seychelles will be taking a tour around the islands on a catamaran showcasing their abilities and talents while raising funds for Liam's Rainbow Foundation. The event was launched at a fun run at Roche Caiman on March 8, which coincided with International Women's Day. Dubbed "Around Seychelles in 18 days," a [...]
The Regional Centre for Operational Coordination based in Seychelles is expected to play an instrumental role in coordinating the Cutlass Express regional exercise led by the United States Naval Forces Africa. To learn more about the centre, the newly accredited Canadian high commissioner to Seychelles, Kyle Nunas, the British high commissioner to Seychelles, Patrick Lynch, and [...]
Local journalists learned more about key findings of Seychelles' 2021 FiTI Report released on February 28 in a half-day workshop organised by the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) in collaboration with the Danny Faure Foundation (DFF). The workshop, under the theme "Using FiTI Reports for Informed Journalism", was also aimed at helping journalists identify the limitations they face in researching [...]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday offered new aid as he threw his support behind Niger on a rare visit, holding up the Western military partner and new democracy as a model in a jihadist-torn region where Russia is making inroads. Blinken is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the former French [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday faced intensified protests and accusations of anti-democratic behaviour after pushing through a contentious pension reform without a parliamentary vote. Using a special constitutional power to pass legislation without a vote amounted to an admission that the government lacked a majority to hike the retirement age from 62 to 64, [...]
