Finnish police investigating a mass knife attack in the city of Turku Friday afternoon have said they consider the event a possible terror attack and have made a number of further arrests at private homes and an asylum centre.
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Spain suffered four incidents believed to be related to terrorism, including two deadly attacks, in little over 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday, which have left 13 victims dead, dozens injured, and as many as six suspected terrorists dead.
MADRID (AP) — Spain says around 700 migrants have tried to storm the border crossing between Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, but none managed to make it across.
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Red Cross says 14 migrants were treated for injuries suffered when they and some 50 others stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.
An investigation by Spain’s most-circulated newspaper has revealed “a tale of illegal immigration, money laundering, and arms and drug trafficking, as well as tobacco smuggling” which is overwhelming the Mediterranean country.
Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Jihad Ahmad Diyab’s fourth attempt to escape Uruguay and return to his native Middle East has failed after Morocco deported him this week for using a falsified passport.
A police officer received light injuries Tuesday after a man shouting “Allahu Akbar” — “God is Great” in Arabic — attacked with a knife, but his rampage was short lived thanks to a quick-witted colleague.
MADRID (AFP) – A knife-wielding man shouting “Allahu Akbar” charged across the border between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Melilla on Tuesday, attacking and injuring a police officer, authorities said.
It’s one of the shortest land borders in the world: a few dozen metres of plastic cord across a sandbank separate Morocco from the tiny Spanish enclave of Penon de Velez de la Gomera. Wooden boats lie amid nets worn
TEL AVIV – The UN Human Rights Council is ignoring the fact that more than 40 European companies – most of which are under some degree of state control in their home countries – operate in four areas around the world deemed occupied by the United Nations even while the agency continues to boycott businesses that operate in Israeli settlements, a new report found.
A foundation bearing the name of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the McCain Institute for International Leadership, has reportedly accepted contributions from left-wing billionaire George Soros and Bill Clinton-linked company Teneo — the latest donor controversy to hit the non-profit.
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Hundreds of African migrants have stormed the Spanish-Moroccan border, injuring guards and pouring into the streets of Melilla.
(AFP) RABAT — The authorities in Morocco and Spain have dismantled a “terrorist cell” of three Islamic State group supporters, the interior ministry in Rabat said on Monday. It said one of the jihadist suspects was arrested in the northern
While Israelis here are celebrating the country’s Independence Day today, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution disavowing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and ignoring Jewish ties to the religion’s holiest sites.
The Moroccan migrant suspect at the centre of a foiled plot to launch an attack outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany, was arrested “at the last minute”, just hours before the terror attack was due to take place.
The North African nation of Morocco is distinguishing itself through a series of successes in breaking up Islamic terror cells and foiling attacks.
A serial rapist from Morocco — who also robbed and drugged his victims — could have assaulted as many as 230 people since 2015, Belgian investigators say.
The leader of the poll-topping Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), Geert Wilders, has announced the suspension of his campaign with less than three weeks to go before his nation’s general election after the discovery of a possible mole in his security
Sweden and Germany are funding two orphanages in Morocco in the hope of easing the problem of homeless Moroccan ‘street children’, many of whom have joined criminal gangs.
Police were able to arrest a suspect early Wednesday morning after a woman was knocked unconscious having been pushed onto the tracks of the Hamburg S-Bahn underground railway by a Moroccan illegal.
Morocco is about 99% Muslim, so it would seem like an unlikely jurisdiction for one of the world’s strictest burqa bans.
Footage has emerged of the “extremely violent and organised” attempt by 1,100 African migrants to break into the Spanish enclave Ceuta on Sunday.
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI attended the inauguration of the historic Ettedgui Synagogue and the adjacent El Mellah Jewish Museum last week in Casablanca.
Italian security forces have deported an Islamist Moroccan national who had expressed his intentions to carry out a terror attack in the Vatican.
RABAT (AFP) – A suspected Islamic State group jihadist who delivered instructions to a cell planning to carry out an attack in France has been arrested in Morocco, authorities said Saturday.
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Two teenage girls were kissing and hugging on a rooftop in Marrakesh, Morocco, late last week when one of their cousins took their photo.
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The gruesome death of a fishmonger in Morocco last week has triggered the country’s largest protests in years, stirring memories of the death of a Tunisian vendor in 2010 which is often regarded as the spark that set the Arab Spring in motion.
A record-breaking Moroccan pop star already wanted in the United States for sexual assault was brought before a judge in France this morning to face charges of sexual assault with violence. Saad Lamjarredwas arrested at the Marriott Champs Elysées in Paris
Donald Trump responded to a recent revelation from WikiLeaks that Hillary Clinton planned to speak at the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2015 meeting in Morocco on the condition of a $12 million dollar donation, again accusing the former secretary of state of pay for play scheme between the Department of State and the Clinton Foundation.
Conversations revealed in hacked emailed published today by the organization Wikileaks show that Hillary Clinton’s presence at a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Morocco was a pre-condition for that government to host it. Clinton never showed, leaving the King of Morocco $12 million poorer and an elite guest list missing an experience many paid handsomely for.
A new batch of emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s account, and published by the organization Wikileaks, reveals the star-studded guest list for the Clinton Global Initiative’s 2015 meeting in Morocco. It also reveals that those attending, including
UNESCO’s executive board is expected on Tuesday to ratify last week’s resolution ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount after the Arab group of UNESCO member states, led by Morocco, blocked Israel’s attempt to delay the vote, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post.
In a series of coordinated raids, Moroccan authorities have broken up a female Islamic State cell that was allegedly plotting suicide bombings and other acts of terror.
A former Guantánamo prisoner released in 2006 after he was extradited to Spain has reportedly been sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison by Spanish court for leading a recruiting cell for al-Qaeda out of the European country’s capital.
A woman from Morocco was caught at customs in an Austrian airport trying to smuggle in the entrails of her husband claiming that she wanted them examined for signs of poisoning.
JAFFA, Israel – The Islamic movement of Morocco, the ruling Justice and Development Party, has decided to eject from its ranks two senior officials, a man and a woman, who were reportedly discovered being intimate in a car near the beach.
