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Jun 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Moroccan court convicted 29 people of planning terrorism attacks and supporting combatants in Iraq, the official MAP news agency said Wednesday.

 
 
May 20 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Moroccan prosecutor on Tuesday urged a court to impose prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years for alleged members of a militant cell accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq and plotting terrorist bombings.

 
 
May 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

Moroccan security services have arrested 11 people on charges of plotting attacks in Morocco and Belgium and having links to Iraq’s insurgency, the Moroccan state news agency said Monday.

 
 
May 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

A Moroccan court broadened investigations Thursday into two alleged terrorism cells, one accused of supporting insurgents in Iraq and the other of plotting suicide bombings in Casablanca last year.

 
 
May 1 2008 by AP0 Comments

Moroccan police have arrested one of nine convicts who escaped from prison in April and were linked to deadly 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca, the official MAP news agency said Thursday.

 
 
Apr 27 2008 by AP0 Comments

A fire roared through a mattress factory in a poor section of Casablanca Saturday, killing up to 55 workers and injuring as many as 24 others, Moroccan officials said.

 
 
Apr 26 2008 by AP0 Comments

Morocco’s official news agency says 55 people have been killed in a fire at a mattress factory in Casablanca.

 
 
Apr 25 2008 by AP0 Comments

A woman pleaded guilty Friday to third-degree murder for killing her bigamist husband just hours before he was to leave for Morocco to visit his second wife.

 
 
Mar 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

Moroccan King Mohammed VI has pardoned a 26-year-old man who was imprisoned for passing himself off as the monarch’s younger brother on Facebook.

 
 
Feb 24 2008 by AP0 Comments

Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.

 
 
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Jul 4 2008 by attitude0 Comments

It is not at all surprising to know that more and more designers and even engineers are turning towards nature for both inspiration and solutions that have eluded their imagination and understanding. It is no shame in taking piece of advice from the 5...

 
 
Dec 22 2007 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

Western Sahara threatens to fall into the spiral of violence again as the Polisario Front has threatened to take up arms against Morocco. A brief glance at the history of the region leaves one bewildered at the number of proposals put forward to settle...

 
 
Oct 30 2007 by attitude0 Comments

This is a story that intrigues me. It comes from a part of the world that I rarely if ever get to hear any news from. I suppose it’s the same for most people in the world or maybe I’m the only one lingering in the dark. Morocco is not a...

 
 
Oct 26 2007 by Geetanjali Singh0 Comments

Yash Raj Films’ ‘Kabul Express’ along with ‘Dhoom’ are part of Africa’s most prestigious the Casablanca Film Festival. The 3rd edition of the festival, Casa Cine, commences from 31st October to 6th November. Casa Cine is one of the most important...

 
 
Oct 24 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The recently concluded nuclear deal between Morocco and France once more demonstrate the international progress that France is making under the leadership of Nicolas Sarkozy. The French President is making headways in the international arena...

 
 
Sep 12 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The conservative-leaning secular party, the Istiqlal party, has won the parliamentary elections in Morocco making it the largest group in the African nation’s new Parliament. It won 52 of the 325 seats in the lower house of Parliament...

 
 
Jul 31 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

The fiendish claws of terrorism are gripping the whole world with rampant pace and the Philippine is not an exception where more than 1700 civilians are killed or injured due to the lethal Islamic violence since 2000, wherein 400 deaths are the...

 
 
Apr 12 2007 by Naresh Chauhan0 Comments

Left over seeds of the Algerian Civil War, an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups that started in 1991 and devoured about 200,000 lives, appears to be sprouted once again after two fatal bombs yesterday...

 
 
Mar 7 2007 by Kanchan0 Comments

For those of you who get sick during ferry travel this would be the perfect answer and for others it will be an adventure ride . A Swiss firm takes on this ambitious project across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Moroccan experts say the long-mooted 39km...

 
 
Mar 3 2007 by Annu0 Comments

Billy Thorpe, a venerated musical hero, left his fans from across the world in a state of mourning on Wednesday. Thorpe, who just missed to arrive at 61, died of a heart attack in Sydney. The pop-idol was giving final touches to his latest and now the...

 
 
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Bradley Fink, Fort Lauderdale
In Morocco there are some waterfalls outside of Marrakesh, the Cascades D’Ouzoud, that are rather exotic. The falls flow steeply from high within the Atlas mountains,...
made popular Jun 18 2008
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Amine, Rabat
Night was falling in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, and Ron Bruder was nervous. He wasn’t exactly sure where he was. It was a working-class part of the city, far from...
made popular Mar 26 2008
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Nahman Bitton, an ultra-Orthodox Jew from the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, dances along to Muslim ‘Gnaoua’ music during a pilgrimage to the tomb of a famous rabbi in the Moroccan town of Safi on Sunday, July 6, 2008. Like Bitton, most of the...