RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN VISITS MOROCCO
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Morocco's King Mohammed VI arrive at the King's palace in Casablanca on September 7, 2006. Putin visits Morocco on his mission to expand Russia's reach in Africa. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A moderate Islamist party was poised to become the biggest party in Morocco's Parliament after elections.
RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Polls opened Friday in Morocco to elect 395 members of parliament amid concerns voter turnout would be low, political analysts said.
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (UPI) -- The people and the government of Morocco are praised for their efforts that led to proposals for constitutional reform, the U.N. secretary-general said.
CASABLANCA, Morocco, June 22 (UPI) -- Morocco said it was following through with key constitutional reforms just two weeks after thousands of people took to the streets in protest of the monarchy.
RABAT, Morocco, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Despite the discovery of five burned bodies in a Moroccan bank, protests in the country are largely peaceful, the interior minister said.
RABAT, Morocco, July 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Morocco's King Mohammed VI to help bring peace between Arabs and Israelis, officials said Saturday.
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.
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