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While world leaders marked the centenary of the end of WWI, the gravity of the occasion proved too much for some, as the king of Morocco was filmed dozing off during the ceremony, seemingly irking the US president in the process. King Mohammed VI of Morocco fell asleep during French President Emmanuel Macron’s Armistice Day […]
Published time: 19 Aug, 2017 08:09 Edited time: 19 Aug, 2017 08:17 The fatal stabbing attack that took place in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday is being investigated as a terrorist incident, police confirmed to local media, identifying the suspect as an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen. The information was released by Yle national broadcaster. […]
The dingy classroom at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech reminds me that there was a time when astronomers charted the skies with little more than math and passion. Sophisticated computer models have been developed to catalog pulsars and probe dark matter, but here in Morocco, in a dark room devoid of high-tech gadgetry, Khalid Barkaoui, […]
Footage has emerged online showing a man setting himself on fire outside a courthouse in the Belgian town of Kortrijk. The man earlier reportedly left a social media post saying he was “tired of racism,” while police have called the incident an “act of despair.” The man, identified as a 38-year-old of Moroccan descent, left […]
As the Netherlands gears up for its general election in March, Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders is laying out his stall to the electorate, including a promise to crack down on “Moroccan scum” in the country. During a campaign walkabout on Saturday in the town of Spijkenisse, described by Reuters as an “ethnically diverse industrial […]
