Month: October 2011

On the African ballot two Arab League members — Mauritania and Morocco — are competing with Togo for two spots By Louis Charbonneau | Reuters – 5 hrs ago UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Pakistan hopes to win a...

By STR | Reuters – 2 hrs 44 mins ago Moroccan Jews hold willows as they celebrate the festival of Sukkot in a synagogue in the old city of the capital Rabat October 19, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer

By STR | Reuters – Mon, Oct 17, 2011 Morocco’s Foreign Minister Taib Fassi-Fihri (L) meets with his British counterpart William Hague during the latter’s visit to Rabat October 17, 2011. REUTERS

By David Lawder | Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Morocco showed the biggest improvement as a place to do business this year, leading a surge of business-friendly reforms in Africa and Eastern Europe, a World Bank study...

By Associated Press, KUWAIT CITY — Opposition groups in Kuwait are pledging to step up pressure on the government after the resignation of the Gulf nation’s foreign minister amid allegations of high-level corruption. Opposition...