New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered, Monday, a top-level inquiry into the Christchurch terror attacks that killed 50 people and injured others, BBC reports. Ardern announced that a royal commission, the highest independent inquiry in New Zealand, will have to determine how a single terrorist carried the country’s bloodiest terror attacks, on March the 15th. «It is important that no stone is left unturned to get to how this act of terrorism occurred
Abu Mansour al Maghrebi joined ISIS in 2013, where he served as a clerk that dealt with international affairs. Between 2015 and 2016 he became a «diplomat» for ISIS and was about to meet Tayyip Erdogan.
American online social media Facebook has refused to take down the content of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups on its platform, reports British newspaper the Independent. Citing a Counter Extremism Project report, the same source indicates that Facebook has allowed these anti-Islam, homophobic and racist pages to freely publish content that was reported by several users for being «offensive». Responding to reports, the social media platform said that these groups did not
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation has asked for an explanation, after knowing that Argentina’s best player is not participating to the friendly scheduled Tuesday, against the Atlas Lions, reports sports platform Sport. On Sunday and in a statement relayed by MAP news agency, the Moroccan Federation announced that it had been officially informed by the match agent that Messi's absence was due to injury on Friday 22 March during the friendly match against Venezuela, which forced
Regional integration was one of the topics on the agenda for the second round of the Geneva round table, held on 21 and 22 March, on the Western Sahara issue. This point has not been as widely covered by media as the notion of self-determination. Nevertheless, Algerian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra, in statements to the press, stressed that in Geneva his country «reiterated the appeal launched a few months ago, in view of the holding of
On Saturday night, thousands of teachers protesting against contracts on which they have been hired were met with water cannons used by the police to disperse protests in Rabat. The rally, which started as a march, was finally turned into a large sit-in in front of the Parliament, before police intervened injuring several teachers, Alyaoum24 reports. Saturday afternoon, in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific
In 2013, Tarek Elmarhri set up a trading company for independent traders. He hopes to launch one in Casablanca, the economic heart of Morocco for, he says, responding to a demand that will grow in the Kingdom.
FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi will not be able to captain the Argentinian national football team in its friendly against Morocco, the Argentina Football Federation said in a statement. Quoted by sports outlet Marca, the team announced that Messi suffers from an injury and that he won’t be able to play against the Atlas lions. This injury will not affect his participation in Barcelona’s match against Espanyol on March the 30th, the same
The second round-table on the Western Sahara dispute has ended Friday. Following the two-day talks, Horst Köhler issued a statement that goes hand in hand with the UN Security Council resolutions.
«The 2004 Madrid train bombings were plotted in a castle that belongs to King Mohammed VI, 80 kilometers away from Paris, Villarejo told the judge», is the title of an article published, Friday, on Spanish newspaper El Espanol. The former Spanish officer José Villajero, currently held in prison, has sent a document to the judge at the Spanish Supreme Court, in which he alleges that all documents backing his accusations are in the hands of the National Intelligence