Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday his government is seeking to accelerate its COVID-19 booster shots campaign and has reached out to the head of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer to secure additional vaccines.Kishida told reporters the…
RABAT, MOROCCO — Moroccan security forces with U.S. support have foiled a suspected bomb plot by the so-called Islamic State group and arrested an alleged supporter of the outlawed organization, counterterror police said Friday.”This arrest is the culm…
NEW YORK — New York state reported Friday that just over 21,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19 the previous day, the highest single-day total for new cases since testing became widely available.Just under half of the positive results were in t…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued guidelines for keeping children in school even if they are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated and have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.During a virtual briefing by the White H…
In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfo…
Four elite swimmers ? Khema Elizabeth, Aaliyah Palestrini, Simon Bachmann and Mathieu Bachmann ? have been selected to take part in the 15th Fina Short Course World Swimming Championships 2021 in Abu Dhabi.The swimmers are accompanied by head coach Van…
Former footballer Alex Bistoé was laid to rest yesterday after he passed away on Friday December 10, 2021.Born on March 19, 1978, Bistoé played as a central midfielder and was seen as one of Seychelles’ promising stars.He was a member of the Seychelles…
Seychelles on Wednesday this week submitted its 2020 report to the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), summarising key information on the status of Seychelles’ fisheries sector and detailing the extent of the country’s compliance with the FiTI St…
“Dear teachers, students, education workers & our esteemed stakeholders,“We have reached the end of the last academic session for 2021. To many institutions, this is the end of an academic year. It has been a real challenging year. We’ve experienced co…
AMSA Renal Care Seychelles has donated a cheque worth R250,000 to the Ministry of Health.The money, to improve facilities at the hemodialysis unit, was handed over by the president of the company, Abdulla Amiruddin Ajmal, to Minister Peggy Vidot, in a …