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ISESCO Slams International Community's Failure to Stop Israeli Crimes in Gaza

Rabat - The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) on Thursday condemned the inability of the international community, with all its institutions, to stop the latest...

Twitter surges on user growth figures

New York - Twitter shares surged in morning trade Wednesday after the messaging platform eased investor concerns with a quarterly report showing strong user growth and robust revenues....

Tunisia can't cope with massive Libya refugee influx: minister

Tunis - Tunisia cannot cope with any massive influx of refugees who might seek to enter the country from strife-torn neighbouring Libya and will close its border if necessary, the foreign minister...

South Sudanese squatters flooded after heavy Sudan rains

Khartoum - Crude camps housing South Sudanese have been flooded by heavy rains that inundated the Sudanese capital over the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a southern diplomat said on Wednesday....

Keshi set for improved Nigeria deal

Abuja - The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirmed on Wednesday they are finalising a new deal for national coach Stephen Keshi....

Libya Islamists seize key Benghazi army base

Tripoli - Islamist groups have seized the army special forces headquarters in Libya's Benghazi after days of fighting left at least 35 soldiers dead and plunged the country deeper into lawlessness....

S.Africa shantytown forces anti-apartheid museum to close

Port Elizabeth (South Africa) - South African shantytown residents have forced the closure of a museum honouring anti-apartheid heroes, accusing the authorities of building "a house for dead people"...

World Ebola fears grow with Europe and Asia on alert

London - Fears that the west African Ebola outbreak could spread to other continents grew with European and Asian countries on alert and a leading medical charity warning the epidemic was out of...

Philippines to ferry workers out of Libya after beheading, rape

Manila - The Philippines dispatched its foreign minister on Thursday to oversee the evacuation of 13,000 citizens from Libya after a Filipino construction worker was beheaded and a nurse gang-raped...

EU grants Morocco 890 million euros for 2014-2017 period, part of neighborhood and partnership instrument

Brussels - The European Union decided this Friday to grant Morocco a budget of 890 million euros for the 2014-2017 period, as part of the European neighborhood and partnership instrument....

Moroccan diplomacy made African dimension top priority

Doha - The Al Jazeera Center for Studies noted that the Moroccan diplomacy has made the African dimension a top priority due to Morocco's geographical location as an African country and the social...

Royal Air Maroc Gets International Five Star Diamond Award

Rabat - The Moroccan flag carrier Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has bagged, for the second year in a row, the International Five Star Diamond Award of the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS)....

Entre droit à l’accès à l’eau potable à 16 km de la ville de Marrakech

Persistance d'une requête de l'année écoulée en matière de dotation en eau du centre de santé Oued Lahjer et ses conséquences pour ses bénéficiaires et la population desservie. Entre droit à l’accès...

Sudanese Christian woman spared death sentence meets Pope

Rome - A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for renouncing Islam sparked a global outcry that eventually led to an acquittal, met Pope Francis after arriving in Italy en route to the...

No survivors on Algeria flight, black box found: France

Paris - No one survived the crash of an Air Algerie flight over Mali, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday, adding that the plane's black box flight recorder had been found....

Moroccan planes carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians arrive in Egypt

Ismailia (Egypt) - Two Moroccan military planes carrying humanitarian aid dispatched by Morocco to Palestinians in the Gaza strip, arrived Thursday morning at the Ismailia airport in Egypt....

L'Institut Cervantès va ouvrir un centre à Laâyoune, le septième au Maroc

Madrid - L'Institut Cervantès, organisme qui oeuvre pour la diffusion de la langue et de la culture espagnoles et hispano-américaine, a annoncé l'ouverture d'un centre à Laâyoune, le septième au...

Morocco, emergent country and diplomatic power

Paris - Under the leadership of HM King Mohamed VI to address the many challenges facing the modern world and in the context of regional crises, Morocco devised a global project aimed at a greater...

Morocco's Grain Output Falls to 68 Million Quintals in 2014

Rabat - The grain output fell to 68 million quintals in 2014 compared to 97 million quintals in 2013 (an exceptional crop year), Agriculture and Fisheries minister, Aziz Akhannouch, said here...

320 kg of cannabis Seized in Casablanca

Casablanca - The Royal Gendarmerie in Lahraouyine, suburbs of Casablanca, seized on Monday 320 kg of cannabis. During this operation, the...