All posts tagged "Morocco"

The death toll from a massive earthquake in Morocco has risen to more than 1,300, with the victims to be remembered during three days of mourning, the king announced on Saturday evening. Morocco's Interior Ministry said 1,305 people had died and 1,832 were injured, of whom 1,220 were in a serious condition. The search continued as the death toll rose throughout the day after the earthquake that occurred late on Friday night. "It was decided to observe three days of national mourning, flying national flags at half mast at all public facilities," a statement said after King Mohamed VI chaired a ......

Pope Francis has joined the global community in mourning the dozens of migrants found dead inside a trailer truck abandoned in Texas amid sweltering temperatures. “Let us #PrayTogether for these brothers and sisters who died following their hope of a better life; and for ourselves, may the Lord might open our hearts so these misfortunes never happen again,” the Pontiff tweeted. On Monday, a San Antonio city worker heard soft cries for help coming from a rig parked along Quintana road, between railroad tracks and salvage yards. At least 50 people, all of them believed to have been smuggled into......

The death toll in an attempt by hundreds of migrants to break through a border fence between Morocco and a Spanish exclave earlier this week has risen to 23, Moroccan state television reported on Sunday. On Friday, Rabat said 18 migrants had died, while others and security forces were injured, during a mass attempt to storm the border to the Spanish exclave of Melilla. Five further migrants have since died, raising the toll to 23, state television reported late on Saturday, citing unnamed local sources. The 18 injured migrants and one member of security forces are still under medical observati......

A 5-year-old Moroccan boy who was trapped in a well for more than four days has died. Morocco’s ruler, King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the child’s family in a statement released by the palace. The boy, named by local media as Rayan, fell into a 105-feet well outside his home in Morocco’s mountainous northern Chefchaouen province on Tuesday. For the last four days, rescuers worked tirelessly to dig out the boy safely, as news about the rescue gripped the nation, and the #SaveRayan hashtag began trending on social media. He was pulled out of the well in the tiny town of Ighran on S......

A US-Israeli delegation flight to Morocco took off on Tuesday, less than two weeks after Morocco joined a growing list of Arab countries to begin normalizing relations with Israel. US President Donald Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner is co-leading the delegation with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat. The two are set to meet with Morocco's King Mohammed VI as part of efforts to advance the normalization talks. "We have several agreements we are looking to conclude on the trip and hopefully it will pave the way toward a very warm peace," Kushner said at a pre......