Sources: Euronews
Four people in Poland, three in the Czech Republic, and one in Romania, are killed during massive floods, bringing the death toll from the ongoing flood in Central and Eastern Europe to 16. 2024-09-16
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
At least nine people are killed in the Philippines during floods and landslides caused by Tropical Storm Kompasu. 2021-10-12
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
Mounir el-Motassadeq, sentenced to 15 years in prison as a member of the Hamburg cell of the September 11 attackers, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to Morocco. 2018-10-15
The oldest fossil records of "Homo sapiens" are discovered in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated at between 300,000 and 350,000 years old. The earliest "Homo sapiens" fossils had been dated as 200,000 years old. 2017-06-7
Up to 1600 homes in the Moreton Bay region near the state capital Brisbane are also threatened with flooding. 2013-01-26
Morocco arrests 96 people it accuses of inciting violence during last Monday's deadly police raid on the Gdaim Izik camp in Western Sahara. Half a dozen appear before a military court, including activist Annaama Asfari. 2010-11-13