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Saturday, January 5, 2008
VENEZUELA
World |
January 5, 2008
14 missing as plane crashes into sea
A plane crashed into the sea off Venezuela with 14 people on board, including eight Italians and a Swiss citizen. Read more
Saturday, November 3, 2007
World in Brief / SPAIN - Morocco protests visit to enclaves
World |
November 3, 2007
Morocco recalled its ambassador to Spain because of a plan by
Spain’s king and queen to visit two Spanish enclaves in North Africa
claimed by Morocco. Read more
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
World in Brief / MOROCCO - Final results show secular victory
World |
September 11, 2007
Morocco’s conservative Istiqlal party won the most seats in
parliamentary elections, allowing it to form the next government with
its current ruling coalition, final results showed. Read more
Sunday, September 9, 2007
World in Brief | MOROCCO - Secular party triumphs in vote
World |
September 9, 2007
Voters deprived an Islamist party of an expected parliamentary
victory, handing it instead to a secular conservative party that is a
member of the ruling coalition, according to preliminary results. Read more
AUSTRALIA
World |
September 9, 2007
APEC leaders agree on climate plan
Pacific Rim leaders agreed to curb global warming by improving energy use and expanding forests, laying out a plan they hope will influence future climate change talks but that critics dismissed as too timid. Read more
Saturday, September 8, 2007
World in Brief | MOROCCO - Vote expected to boost Islamists
World |
September 8, 2007
Morocco began counting votes after a record low turnout in
parliamentary elections that were expected to show gains for
Islamists pressing an anti-corruption message. Read more
Sunday, April 15, 2007
N. Africa attacks put West on alert
World |
April 15, 2007
Bombings in Algeria and Morocco and other militant activity across
North Africa have put U.S. and European authorities on alert that
their interests in the region may be targeted for attack, officials say. Read more
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
4 terror suspects killed in raid
World |
April 11, 2007
Acting on a tip, Moroccan police surrounded a building in Casablanca
where four terrorism suspects were holed up, prompting three to flee
and blow themselves up with explosives. Read more
Monday, March 12, 2007
Casablanca suicide bomber injures 3
World |
March 12, 2007
A Moroccan man detonated explosives he was carrying under his clothes
at an Internet cafe in Casablanca, killing himself and wounding three
people, security sources and witnesses said today. Read more
Friday, May 5, 2006
50 Women Join Ranks of Muslim Preachers
World |
May 5, 2006
Fifty women have graduated as Muslim preachers, part of Morocco’s
effort to promote moderate Islam. Read more
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Panel Details Deaths, Disappearances
World |
December 17, 2005
A truth commission set up by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI to
investigate human rights abuses during his father’s 38-year rule
found that nearly 600 people had disappeared and 500 had been killed
during street riots or while in police custody, the state news agency reported. Read more
Monday, December 5, 2005
Patch of Spain in Africa Draws Migrants
World |
December 5, 2005
The women, some pregnant, others toting their children, risk the
slippery, rugged cliffs here to cross from Africa into Europe without
leaving the continent. Read more
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Marrakech’s new Euro chic
Travel |
November 20, 2005
THERE won’t be a sign, and every doorway will look the same. Read more
Marrakech’s new Euro chic
Travel |
November 20, 2005
SOMEONE must have rubbed a brass lamp and let a genie out of a bottle. Read more
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Ancient tale transports a 21st century traveler
Travel |
October 30, 2005
SOMEDAY I would like to see the Empty Quarter in the Arabian Desert;
the Syrian trading entrepot Aleppo; the ancient Persian capital of
Esfahan; Central Asia’s Tien Shan mountains; Borobudur Temple on the
island of Java; the Vale of Kashmir in the Himalayas; Mecca; all the
great sights of Dar al-Islam, historically a broad swath of Eurasia
and Africa that was converted and colonized by followers of Muhammad. Read more
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Changing lives, one glass at a time
Travel |
October 23, 2005
RESEARCHING a recent Her World column on traveling in places
struggling with poverty, I discovered Global Exchange Reality Tours,
a San Francisco company that tries to expose travelers to the daily
lives of people in the developing world. Read more
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Nation Stuck Between Fear and Regret
World |
October 22, 2005
He calls them the “citadels of death,” the prisons where he watched
his friends die, one by one. Read more
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Down, dirty in Morocco
Entertainment |
October 16, 2005
IT was lunchtime when the dust storm blew down from the hills. Read more
Friday, October 14, 2005
Would-Be Migrants Deported to Mali
World |
October 14, 2005
About 140 grim-faced Malians, their only luggage blankets or plastic
bags containing bread and milk, boarded a chartered plane as the
government of Morocco deported them for trying to use the North
African country as a springboard to Europe. Read more
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Morocco Deports Would-Be Immigrants
World |
October 11, 2005
The Moroccan government began deporting would-be immigrants Monday
after recent attempts by hundreds of Africans to storm across
razor-wire fences at the borders of two Spanish enclaves. Read more
