Rabat - Holding the 4 congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) in Rabat shows that Morocco is the world's gateway to Africa, French minister delegate for foreign affairs in charge of...

Washington - The international monetary fund (IMF) commended the decision by Morocco to index the prices of the majority of energy products on the world's market, a "welcomed measure" in the prospect...

Niamey - Speaker of Niger's national assembly Hama Amadou hailed, on Friday in Niamey, the solidarity of Morocco with his country and hoped that bilateral ties between parliamentary bodies become...

Bastia - French president François Hollande expressed on Friday in Bastia, his gratitude and recognition to Morocco, its sovereign and late King Mohammed V on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of...

New York (UN) - Morocco, who has made humanitarian and solidarity-based action in Africa one of the basic goals of its foreign policy, takes special interest in the UN's initiative on immigrants in...

Brussels - The European Commission proposed, on Thursday, to the Council to open negotiations between the EU and Morocco on an agreement to facilitate the procedures for issuing short-stay visas,...

Washington - The US government shutdown puts international science collaboration in peril and could have far-reaching impacts on innovation and research, a top science group said Wednesday....

Washington - President Barack Obama scrapped trips to two key Asian summits on Thursday, blaming the US government shutdown for the cancelation of a tour designed to advance a central prong of his...

Ankara - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey it will "pay dearly" for supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his regime, in an interview broadcast Friday on Turkish television....

A leading Russian Muslim cleric warned Thursday that fans who attend upcoming concerts by openly gay singer Elton John face divine punishment, after the star spoke out in support of Russian gays....

San Francisco - Software titan Adobe Systems warned that hackers stole credit card numbers and other information relating to nearly three million customers....

European bioethicists raised the red flag Thursday over an American patent for a method that could allow people to choose genetic traits like eye colour in children sired from donor eggs or sperm....

Bill Eppridge, the photojournalist behind the iconic and haunting images of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1966, has died at the age of 75, the National Press Photographers Association said...

Lebanon has censored a French film depicting homosexuality and a local short film about the tradition of temporary marriage among some Shiite Muslims, film festival organisers said Thursday....

The story of how Pele conquered the footballing world aged just 17 is coming to Hollywood with filming under way in Rio de Janeiro, Seine Pictures said Thursday. The film, entitled simply,...

Trials began in Sudan on Thursday for a group of 35 people charged with unrest allegedly linked to protests sparked by fuel price hikes last week, a lawyer said. They are among hundreds rounded...

World-famous, reclusive artist Banksy is loose on the streets of New York, hosting a unique show that has whipped up excitement among hipsters and the chattering classes. The England-based...

EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Thursday called for an "inclusive" approach to solve political turmoil in Egypt triggered by the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Ashton,...

"Armed bandits" have killed a Niger soldier and seriously wounded three others in Nigeria's volatile north-east, a high-ranking Niger security official told AFP Thursday, in new violence to hit an...