US President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve against a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition. Air Force One will jet into the eastern Polish town of Rzeszow -- bringing the US president less than 80 kilometres (50 [...]
Ethiopia's government on Thursday declared "an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately", saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands face starvation. Since war broke out in northern Ethiopia in November 2020, thousands have died, and many more have been forced to flee their homes as [...]
NATO leaders pushed Thursday to raise the cost for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine by bolstering weapons supplies to Kyiv and strengthening the alliance's eastern flank. US President Joe Biden is looking to boost unity and ramp up sanctions on Moscow at a day-long string of summits in Brussels as the [...]
Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment Thursday across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew dead. More [...]
Air Seychelles has been given a long-term contract with a United States-based non-profit to carry humanitarian cargo, the airline said on Wednesday. The name of the organisation was not disclosed as the contract is still under discussion. Through the contract, one of Air Seychelles' A320neo aircraft and crew will be based in Dubai for three [...]
Several members of Seychelles' delegation who attended the UN climate change summit in Glasgow (COP26) planted 240 trees in the islands' largest national park to offset the carbon footprint incurred by the delegation's round trip to the summit last year. During the round trip to the conference held in Glasgow from October 31 to November [...]
Air Seychelles and Tourism Seychelles had the opportunity to promote their services, products and best travel options to the island nation at the OTM travel show in India, the airline said on Wednesday. Potential holidaymakers to Seychelles also had the chance to get information on entry requirements now that PCR tests are no longer necessary [...]
Authorities in Seychelles are reviewing the fees that Seychellois citizens have to pay on the Travizory travel authorisation platform when travelling to their homeland, a top official said on Tuesday. Transport minister Antony Derjacques made the statement when answering a private notice question from Sebastien Pillay, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly. [...]
Jean-Luc Melenchon, a divisive but charismatic 70-year-old leftist, is in possible contention to make a French presidential election run-off against Emmanuel Macron as traditional socialist forces fall by the wayside. With Macron way ahead in polls for the first round on April 10, far-right leader Marine Le Pen remains favourite to make the second round, [...]
Russia's forces in Ukraine appear to be turning to a war of attrition with devastating effect on civilians, after failing to secure hoped-for swift gains when President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion one month ago. The US government says recent days have brought more intense aerial and naval bombardment as Ukrainian resistance holds up the [...]
