The number of Seychellois being affected by online scams and fraud on Facebook has increased over the past two years, a top official of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said on Monday. The director of FIU, Philip Moustache, said that 10 cases have been recorded in 2018 compared with nine cases in all of 2017. [...]
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 26 after a person died in the northwest city of Mbandaka, Health Minister Oly Ilunga said on Monday. "A death was recorded (on Sunday), while two people who had been confirmed as ill with the Ebola virus were cured [...]
Two Italians swimmers won the 10 km events for men and women in the open water swim World Series hosted for the first time at the Beau Vallon beach in Seychelles on Saturday and Sunday. In the female event, Italian Arianna Bridi came out first in 1 hour, 58 minutes, 32 seconds. Bridi won three [...]
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar judge will rule on Tuesday whether to allow the submission of evidence police say they obtained from the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters arrested in December for alleged possession of secret documents. Source: Reuters World News
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro faced international condemnation on Monday after his re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce that cemented autocracy in the crisis-stricken oil-producing nation. Source: Reuters World News
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's first-floating nuclear power plant arrived in the Arctic port of Murmansk over the weekend in preparation for its maiden mission, providing electricity to an isolated Russian town across the Bering Strait from Alaska. Source: Reuters World News
LONDON, (Reuters) - A vaccination campaign aimed at beating an outbreak of Ebola in Congo began on Monday in the port city of Mbandaka, where four cases of the deadly disease have been confirmed. Source: Reuters World News
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Angela Merkel faces a delicate diplomatic balancing act when she travels to China this week on a visit clouded by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade threats and his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army pushed Islamic State militants out of a south Damascus pocket on Monday, effectively clearing all insurgents from around the capital, state television said. Source: Reuters World News