Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Russia's campaign against Ukraine's energy network has left around 4.5 million people without power. The two sides' forces continued to battle without significant change on the ground on the eastern and southern Ukraine fronts, with preparations building for a fight over the southern hub of Kherson. Shipments of [...]
Britain's foreign minister said Thursday the UK and Mauritius have agreed to hold talks on the future of the disputed Chagos Islands. Mauritius claims the remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean in full but it is administered by Britain, which has a joint military base there with the United States. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said [...]
President Wavel Ramkalawan will lead the Seychelles delegation at the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) scheduled to take place November 6-18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. State House said in a press statement on Friday that Ramkalawan, who will leave the country on November 5, will be among the [...]
Smog in New Delhi hit "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity. Levels of the most dangerous particles -- PM2.5, so tiny they can enter the bloodstream -- were 588 per cubic metre early on [...]
The Seychelles Public Transport Corporation (SPTC) will debut its electric public buses in four years' time as the island nation aims to have a fully electric transport system in the future, said a top official. The E-mobility project which was launched officially on Thursday will take four years to complete and will be implemented with the [...]
Seychelles has submitted its notification to participate voluntarily and support the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme in International Aviation (CORSIA) as of January 2023, the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said on Wednesday. The submission was made in a short ceremony by the SCCA CEO, Garry Albert, to the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Dr Juan Carlos Salazar, on the [...]
The warring sides in Ethiopia announced Wednesday an agreement to silence their guns after two years of devastating conflict that have claimed thousands of lives and left millions needing aid in Africa's second most populous country. The surprise deal between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and Tigrayan rebels was unveiled after little over a week [...]
The Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) in Seychelles has warned that there could be more severe treated water restrictions in the coming weeks if the water supply in the country does not improve, said a top official on Monday. The general manager for the Water Division at PUC, Ibrahima Diallo, gave the press details on the [...]
Students from several schools in Seychelles who work hard to learn all about the ocean had the chance to visit the Monaco Explorations' research vessel 'S.A . Agulhas 2' in Port Victoria on Monday. The visit was part of a project that teaches students about the marine environment, conservation techniques, ecosystems and how to identify the different [...]
Israel's right-wing veteran Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as the country's prime minister longer than anyone else, has described protecting the Jewish state from its enemies as his "life's mission". His critics and allies alike concede that the gravel-voiced security hawk is a tireless campaigner in pursuit of an office -- the Israeli premiership -- [...]
