Sources: Euronews
Four people are injured, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Shin Bet confirm that the attacker was a 28-year-old from Morocco, and had permanent residency in the United States. 2025-01-21
The death toll from the ongoing floods in Central and Eastern Europe increases to eight, including six people in Romania, one in Poland, and a firefighter in Austria. 2024-09-15
Eighteen people are killed and four are missing during floods caused by torrential rains in southern Morocco. Fifty-six homes are destroyed and 110 roads damaged. 2024-09-9
Eight people are killed, 14 more are injured and two are missing during flash floods in southern Iran, primarily in Fars Province. 2022-01-4
Twenty-four workers die in a flooded illegally-run textile workshop in a private house in Tangier, Morocco, which occurred as a result of intense rains that hit the region. Ten others were rescued and hospitalized. 2021-02-8
Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni and her husband Rifaat al-Amin are each jailed for a year by a Rabat court for premarital sex and unlawful abortion, with doctor Mohammed Jamal Belkeziz receiving two years for carrying an abortion out. Her lawyer claims the evidence was fabricated to dissuade Raissouni and others from criticising the government. Observers including Amnesty International criticise the verdicts. 2019-09-30
Interpol reports that in six weeks it has detected more than a dozen people wanted for terrorism offences crossing the Mediterranean Sea using tourist routes. The joint operation involved Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia. 2019-09-19
Morocco is to amend a law allowing rapists to marry their victims. 2012-03-15
A coalition of Moroccan youth groups called “The February 20 Movement” calls for peaceful protests in cities throughout the country. 2011-02-20
Airports in Morocco, Spain and Portugal reopen after days of Icelandic volcanic disruption. 2010-05-12