Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Russian troops to stop attacking Europe's largest nuclear power plant on Friday after a fire broke out. The blaze erupted at a power unit of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant following Russian strikes, according to spokesman Andrei Tuz. The station at Zaporizhzhia, an industrial city in southeastern Ukraine, [...]
A total of 8.5 million glass bottles of alcoholic beverages have been collected by redeeming centres on Seychelles’ three main islands in a recycling scheme that started last year, said a government official on Wednesday. The director for waste management and standards, Fredrick Kinloch, told reporters that the figure was unexpected but shows that the [...]
Australia's emergency services ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that lurched towards Sydney Thursday after killing 13 people in more than a week of record-setting floods along the east coast. Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coast as water levels rose rapidly [...]
Rotary International has offered free heart surgery for 50 children in Seychelles under its 'Gift of Life' programme, the organisation’s president said on Tuesday. Shekhar Mehta made the statement to reporters after meeting with Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House. The Gift of Life Programme of Rotary International started in 1975 with the primary [...]
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that "demands" Russia "immediately" withdraw from Ukraine, in a powerful rebuke of Moscow's invasion by a vast majority of the world's nations. After more than two days of extraordinary debate, which saw the Ukrainian ambassador accuse Russia of genocide, 141 out of 193 United Nations [...]
Seychelles has started discussions with the World Bank on measures to put in place to assist lower-income earners in anticipation of an economic crisis that the Ukraine-Russian war will bring, said a top official. The Minister of Finance, Naadir Hassan, told reporters on Tuesday that the conflict will have an impact on the supplies and [...]
Seychelles strongly supports the call from the leaders of the African Union (AU) and the AU Commission for an immediate ceasefire in the Russia and Ukraine conflict. The AU’s chair, Senegalese President Macky Sall, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, chair of the African Union Commission, issued a joint statement last week calling for a ceasefire and for [...]
The collection of sooty tern eggs in Seychelles is banned for two years after a census shows a decline in the population of the species, said a top environment officer recently. The ban which will be in place for 2022 and 2023 is one of the measures put in place by the Ministry of Environment [...]
President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a "dictator" Tuesday and warned Russia's billionaires that he was coming after their yachts and private jets, as Russian air strikes pummeled Ukraine in a bid to crush the US ally's resistance. Despite sanctions and warnings of a humanitarian crisis, Moscow launched a fresh assault on a residential block [...]
The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash "epidemic" that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt a resolution creating an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally binding [...]
