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Chagossian Bernadette Dugasse speaks, during an interview with The Associated Press, at her home in London, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a U.K.-Mauritius deal

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Pedestrians wear masks as they walk on a street in the capital Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The president of the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles says he hopes enough residents will soon be vaccinated against COVID-19 to stop the spread of the virus, hoping to achieve herd immunity by mid-March by vaccinating about 70% of the population. (AP Photo/Salim Ally)

Seychelles bids to reach COVID ‘herd immunity’ by mid-March

By EMILIE CHETTY - Associated Press

Seychelles to start vaccinations with Chinese-made Sinopharm

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Upset in Seychelles presidential election as incumbent loses

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020, file photo, U.S. citizens queue to check in and be repatriated aboard an evacuation flight arranged by the U.S. embassy and chartered with Delta Air Lines, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. African nations face a difficult choice as infections are rapidly rising: Welcome the international flights that originally brought COVID-19 to the ill-prepared continent, or further hurt their economies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

Africa starts opening airspace even as COVID-19 cases climb

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Cyprus president regrets taking free flight for family trip

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In this May 15, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, powerful Emirati crown prince, entangled by Mueller report

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Groundbreaking Indian Ocean science mission reaches an end

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

In this Saturday, April 13, 2019, photo, Seychelles President Danny Faure, left, sits inside a submersible on the deck of vessel Ocean Zephyr, off the coast of Desroches, in the outer islands of Seychelles. Faure toured the vessel and was presented with some of the findings and observations made by a British-led science expedition documenting changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/Steve Barker)

Danny Faure, Seychelles president, issues global plea in underwater speech

By David Keyton - Associated Press

In this Saturday, April 13, 2019, photo, Seychelles President Danny Faure, left, sits inside a submersible on the deck of vessel Ocean Zephyr, off the coast of Desroches, in the outer islands of Seychelles. Faure toured the vessel and was presented with some of the findings and observations made by a British-led science expedition documenting changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/Steve Barker)

Seychelles president’s underwater speech: Protect our oceans

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

Submersible pilots from the UK-led Nekton Mission converse after one of their craft was forced to conduct an emergency ascent from 250 meters beneath the surface of the Indian ocean off the Seychelles, Tuesday March 19, 2019. A British scientist and her American pilot were inside the submersible when it filled with smoke. Both are now safe onboard the mother ship where an electrical fire aboard the sub is being investigated as the possible cause. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Sub makes rapid ascent in Indian Ocean; crew safe

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

The manned submersible surfaces after dark after a failed mission to recover a stranded ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle), in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles, Wednesday March 13, 2019. The previous day, an accident severed the cable connecting the drone to the mother-ship of the British-based Nekton mission. The camera-carrying ROV is a vital image-gathering tool that can go deeper than the submersibles. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Seychelles science mission chases a wayward drone, in vain

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

An image taken from video issued by Nekton shows a submersible from the vessel the Ocean Zephyr during a descent into the Indian Ocean off Alphonse Atoll near the Seychelles, Tuesday March 12, 2019. Members of the British-led Nekton research team boarded two submersible vessels and descended into the waters off the Seychelles on Tuesday, marking a defining moment in their mission to document changes to the Indian Ocean. The submersibles will be battling strong undersea currents and potentially challenging weather conditions as they survey the side of an undersea mountain off Alphonse Atoll. (Nekton via AP)

Indian Ocean exploration makes historic undersea broadcast

By DAVID KEYTON and JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

Researchers conducted the first sea tests of a submersible crucial to the British-based Nekton Mission which will explore the Indian Ocean during a seven-week long science expedition. The submarine was launched from the Ocean Zephyr off the coast of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles on Tuesday March 5, 2019. The mission will explore the Indian Ocean, during which scientists hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Explorers to send 1st live video broadcast from ocean depths

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

Stephanie Marie, a young scientist from the Seychelles, looks on before her trip in a submersible off the coast of the Seychelles, on Friday 8 March, 2019. A young scientist from the Seychelles has become the first known Seychellois to explore deep below scuba depth in the largely uncharted waters of her island nation. 23-year-old Stephanie Marie was offered a seat in a submersible for a technical test dive near the tiny Alphonse atoll on International Women’s Day. The marine researcher is taking part in the Nekton Mission to explore the Indian Ocean, one of the last major unexplored frontiers. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Young Seychelles researcher offered surprise, historic dive

By DAVID KEYTON and JERRY HARMER - Associated Press

Technicians conduct maintenance on the Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) as the British-based Nekton Mission sails to a dive site in the Seychelles on Wednesday March 6, 2019. The science expedition will explore the Indian Ocean, during which researchers hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Scientists begin exploring Indian Ocean depths in Seychelles

By JERRY HARMER and DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

A submarine is launched from the Ocean Zephyr off the coast of Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles on Tuesday March 5, 2019. Scientists are about to set off on a mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean, one of the planet’s last great unexplored frontiers. The mission will explore the Indian Ocean, during which scientists hope to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Bad weather changes course of Indian Ocean exploration trip

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

The research vessel Ocean Zephyr lays off Victoria, the Seychelles, on Friday March 1, 2019, where it will spend several days loading and testing equipment ahead of a weeks-long expedition to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean. The Ocean Zephyr is the mothership of the British-based Nekton Mission for scientists to document the impact of global warming in the unexplored frontier of the Indian Ocean that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/Steve Barker)

Science vessel for ocean mission arrives in Seychelles

Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 6, 2015, file photo, shows a large section of land between the trees washed away due to continuing rising sea leaves on Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. Small island nations are using the weeklong gathering of world leaders at this year’s U.N. General Assembly to highlight the one issue that threatens all of their existence: global warming. On the map, their homes are tiny specks in a vast sea of blue, rarely in the headlines and far removed from the centers of power. But for a few days each year, the leaders of small island nations share the same podium as presidents and prime ministers from the world’s most powerful nations, and their message is clear: global warming is already changing our lives, and it will change yours too. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Small islands use big platform to warn of climate change

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 file photo, a box of nursery-grown coral is handed to a diver off the coast of Praslin, where coral is being reintroduced, in the Seychelles. Beneath the crystal-clear waters of the Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles, a fight is growing to save the coral reefs that shelter a range of creatures and act as a protective barrier for coastlines but the reefs are also one of the first victims of rising ocean temperatures. (Tate Drucker/The Nature Conservancy via AP, File)

In the Seychelles, coral reefs face climate change threat

By ADELLE KALAKOUTI - Associated Press