TORONTO, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- No U.S. presidential primary in recent memory has been watched overseas more closely than the 2008 contest. It has also brought out large numbers of previously unregistered U.S. citizens who live outside the United States to vote. Here are comments from some ranking individuals.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The delegation moved through security and up the elevators to a grand foyer. From the window, Gen. Constantin Degeratu, the Romanian national security adviser, and Eduard Kukan, who recently left his post after eight years as Slovak foreign minister, peered out to the Caspian Sea. I too was at the window looking at the massive building projects in Baku. I turned to Hassan Abouyoub, the chief adviser to Morocco's King Mohammed VI, and Seffi Bodansky, a senior adviser to the U.S. Congress, as the door opened.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- This weekend’s peaceful elections in Morocco and the al-Qaida bomb attacks in neighboring Algeria gave two sharply contrasting images of the realities of power and politics in North Africa.

RABAT, Morocco, March 2 (UPI) -- King Mohammed VI of Morocco has pardoned almost 9,000 prisoners and commuted more than 24,000 sentences to mark the birth of a daughter.

ALGIERS, Algeria, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A settlement for the long-protracted conflict over the Western Sahara appears to be still remote in light of Morocco's refusal to grant it independence.

RABAT, Morocco, May 4 (UPI) -- The North African Islamic kingdom of Morocco will let its women preach the religion but they still won't be allowed to lead Friday prayers.

RABAT, Morocco, April 18 (UPI) -- Morocco's government is grappling to address past human rights abuses while at the same time, meet international demands to battle terrorism.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- President Bush welcomed Moroccan King Mohammed VI to the White House Thursday and praised new political and social reforms in the African nation.

AMMAN, Jordan, May 24 (UPI) -- Jordanian King Abdullah received an invitation from U.S. President George W. Bush to attend the G-8 summit in the June 8, reports said Monday.