Month: October 2011

AFP An Italian and two Spaniards who were kidnapped in Algeria a week ago, are alive and being held by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a mediator told AFP after contact with the kidnappers. “The three European hostages...

RABAT, Morocco — Adel al-Othmani — who on April 28 dressed like a foreigner so he could plant a bomb in a tourist hot spot, then detonated it with his cellphone, killing 17 — was sentenced to death yesterday by...

Reuters – 2 hours ago Dozens of protesters at economic inequality demonstrations in Austin, Texas, and Portland, Oregon were arrested peacefully early on Sunday over allegedly failing to comply with rules in each city....

(AFP) RABAT — Moroccan prosecutors will appeal a court’s decision to sentence seven men convicted over an April bombing in Marrakesh to less than five years in jail, a judicial source said on Saturday. The anti-terrorism...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Desertec, the world’s most ambitious solar power project, is to start building its first power plant next year, a 500 megawatt (MW) facility in Morocco costing up to 2 billion euros ($2.8...