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Marrakech Film Festival opens in Morocco with ‘The Order’
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Marrakech Film Festival opens in Morocco with ‘The Order’

Associated Press  

MARRAKECH, Morocco — One of the Middle East and North Africa’s largest film festivals opened Friday in Morocco, drawing actors and directors from throughout the world to present 70 features from 32 countries. Remi Bonhomme, the festival’s artistic director, said what makes the festival unique is its ability to draw talent on par with the world’s largest festivals while also …

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Sino-Moroccan ENT training fosters advanced surgical expertise
4 weeks ago

Sino-Moroccan ENT training fosters advanced surgical expertise

China Daily  

Participants engage in surgical dissection training in the laboratory, honing advanced techniques under expert guidance. Since 2021, the training programs by the ENT department at PUMCH have provided advanced education to 28 participants from Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Mauritius. According to Professor Feng Guodong, deputy director of the department and Senior tutor of Fisch International Microsurgery Foundation, the ENT …

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Hundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of Ceuta
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of Ceuta

LA Times  

Migrants disembark at the port of “La Estaca” in Valverde on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Monday. Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youths who tried to swim their way around controls, Spanish authorities said Monday. Cristina Pérez, …

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Hundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of Ceuta
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Hundreds of migrants attempt to swim from Morocco to the Spanish territory of Ceuta

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Thousands of migrants have attempted to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the last few days, including hundreds of youth who tried to swim their way around controls, Spanish authorities said Monday. Pérez did not disclose how many had successfully reached Ceuta but Pérez explained that following Spanish law that allowed …

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Morocco coach Regragui has suspension lifted and can return for Africa Cup game against South Africa
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Morocco coach Regragui has suspension lifted and can return for Africa Cup game against South Africa

Associated Press  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Walid Regragui has had his suspension lifted, clearing the Morocco coach to return for the team’s Africa Cup of Nations last 16 game against South Africa on Tuesday. The Confederation of African Football said Sunday it had partially upheld the appeal filed by the Moroccan federation against Regragui’s four-game ban — with two suspended — for …

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CAF bans Morocco coach Walid Regragui for 2 games, fines Moroccan and Congo federations after melee
10 months, 4 weeks ago

CAF bans Morocco coach Walid Regragui for 2 games, fines Moroccan and Congo federations after melee

Associated Press  

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Morocco coach Walid Regragui was given a four-game ban — with two suspended — on Wednesday in response to heated scenes Sunday at the end of the team’s Africa Cup of Nations game against Congo. The Moroccan federation said it will appeal CAF’s “unjust decision” to ban Regragui because the coach “did not commit any behavior …

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Moroccan jailed for beheading European hikers kills himself
1 year, 9 months ago

Moroccan jailed for beheading European hikers kills himself

Associated Press  

RABAT, Morocco — A Moroccan convicted of belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated ring and sentenced to death for the beheadings of two Scandinavian tourists has killed himself in prison, Moroccan officials said. The prisoner was among convicted ring members jailed in 2019 over the gruesome killings of two young Scandinavian women, Louisa Vesterager Jespersen from Denmark and Maren Ueland from …

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Ecstatic Moroccans celebrate World Cup victory over Portugal
2 years ago

Ecstatic Moroccans celebrate World Cup victory over Portugal

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Ecstatic Moroccans poured into the …

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How Morocco rewrote World Cup history books against Portugal
2 years ago

How Morocco rewrote World Cup history books against Portugal

Al Jazeera  

Morocco become the first team from Africa to reach a World Cup semi-final when they beat Portugal. At 7:58pm, Morocco, to the surprise of the world and to the disbelief of Moroccans themselves, sealed a stunning win over Portugal and became the first African team and the first Arab one to reach a football World Cup semi-final. This is awesome,” …

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Morocco are striking back for rest of the world against Europe and South America
2 years ago

Morocco are striking back for rest of the world against Europe and South America

New York Times  

For the first time in the whole tournament, Walid Regragui did not like what he was seeing. Hakimi was born and raised in Madrid, but he has always felt Moroccan and never more than at this moment, standing over a penalty kick with the chance to eliminate Spain and send his parents’ country — his country — through to the …

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Spain promises full cooperation with migrant death probes
2 years, 5 months ago

Spain promises full cooperation with migrant death probes

Al Jazeera  

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has promised his government would offer “total collaboration” with the Spanish and Moroccan investigations into the deaths of 23 migrants during a mass attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla enclave. “I regret the loss of human life and express my solidarity with the families of the migrants who died,” Sanchez told Cadena Ser radio, pledging his …

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Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
2 years, 5 months ago

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Associated Press  

MADRID — Spain’s prime minister has defended the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as “an attack on Spain’s borders.” “We must remember that many of these migrants attacked Spain’s borders with …

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Rights groups call for probe into deaths during Melilla crossing
2 years, 5 months ago

Rights groups call for probe into deaths during Melilla crossing

Al Jazeera  

Death toll from attempted mass crossing from Morocco to Spanish enclave rises to 23 as Pedro Sanchez decries ‘attack on territorial integrity’. Human rights groups in Morocco and Spain have called for an investigation into the deaths of 23 people during an attempted mass crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Africa. The Moroccan Association for Human Rights, …

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US moves to shore up unhappy allies on North Africa visit
2 years, 8 months ago

US moves to shore up unhappy allies on North Africa visit

Al Jazeera  

US Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Morocco and Algeria aims to bring the rivals together, and improve relations with the United States. Algeria has continued to remain deeply concerned about President Joe Biden’s refusal to reverse his predecessor Donald Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara. According to Mayaara, Blinken will seek to balance Morocco and …

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AP Photos: Trapped by snow in a Moroccan mountain village
3 years ago

AP Photos: Trapped by snow in a Moroccan mountain village

The Independent  

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WHO classifies new COVID variant as ‘of concern’
3 years ago

WHO classifies new COVID variant as ‘of concern’

Al Jazeera  

The World Health Organization names new coronavirus variant Omicron and designates it as a ‘variant of concern’. WHO has named it Omicron, in line with naming protocols https://t.co/bSbVas9yds pic.twitter.com/Gev1zIt1Ek — World Health Organization November 26, 2021 26 Nov 2021 - 17:59 GMT South African official says WHO will designate variant as “of concern” A senior South African health official said …

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Canary Islands: More than 400 migrants rescued in Atlantic
3 years, 1 month ago

Canary Islands: More than 400 migrants rescued in Atlantic

The Independent  

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Earliest Known Ankylosaur Fossil Discovered in Moroccan Site, First in Africa
3 years, 2 months ago

Earliest Known Ankylosaur Fossil Discovered in Moroccan Site, First in Africa

News 18  

A new species of dinosaur with ‘totally weird’ spikes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. Fossil hunters have uncovered remains of the oldest, perhaps the most ‘bizarre’ group of dinosaur, known as ankylosaur, which is the first of its kind to be discovered in a site in Morocco. A study published in the Nature Ecology and Evolution, says …

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Tangier’s new dawn – how Morocco’s dissident dive got its mojo back
3 years, 3 months ago

Tangier’s new dawn – how Morocco’s dissident dive got its mojo back

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. There was unmistakably something in the air – besides the perfume of rose water and grilling sardines – that lent …

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Why are thousands of migrants suddenly crossing into Spain from North Africa?
3 years, 7 months ago

Why are thousands of migrants suddenly crossing into Spain from North Africa?

LA Times  

About 8,000 people have streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco in the past two days, most of them swimming around breakwaters and across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North Africa. Like Melilla, another Spanish possession on the Moroccan coast, Ceuta in recent decades has become a flashpoint for migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa …

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Spain returns people who swam from Morocco, adds troops to border
3 years, 7 months ago

Spain returns people who swam from Morocco, adds troops to border

Al Jazeera  

Madrid has returned almost half the 6,000 people who arrived, as the Ceuta enclave’s president described an ‘invasion’. Spain has sent 2,700 people back to Morocco, out of the more than 6,000 who swam from the North African country into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta over the past two days. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska confirmed the move on Tuesday, adding …

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Kushner joins Israelis on landmark visit to Morocco
4 years ago

Kushner joins Israelis on landmark visit to Morocco

Associated Press  

RABAT, Morocco — Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday on the first known direct flight since the two countries agreed to establish full diplomatic ties earlier this month as part of a series of U.S.-brokered normalization accords with Arab countries. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has overseen the diplomatic push that …

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Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration
4 years ago

Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration

Al Jazeera  

Tech corporations are expanding the scope of surveillance across the correctional pipeline, but who pays the price? Microsoft has also worked on electronic monitoring solutions with partners for persons under “community supervision”, and has its own Microsoft-branded “Digital Prison Management Solution”. Taken together, Microsoft and its partners’ carceral solutions cover the entire correctional pipeline, from “juvenile delinquency” to pretrial and …

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Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands
4 years, 1 month ago

Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — The Spanish government is ratcheting up its response to the steady build-up of migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands from Africa, including a fresh diplomatic offensive. Though the government has come under pressure from local officials to transfer a significant number of migrants and asylum seekers to the Spanish mainland, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Friday that the …

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