Representatives of Morocco’s religious minorities on Saturday urged the government to clarify the law on freedom of worship in Morocco, where Islam is the state religion. Their statement came after an unprecedented meeting in the capital Rabat. “The Moroccan state still places barriers when it comes to legal reforms concerning minorities,” Jawad el Hamidi, the
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be questioned Sunday for a sixth time in a pair of criminal investigations involving suspicions he received illegal gifts and favors from businessman for advancing their business interests. Netanyahu will be confronted with fresh testimony garnered by police, Hadashot news (formerly channel 2 TV) reported Saturday. Last
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, is preparing to request a retrial, his wife said on Saturday. Larissa Trimbobler announced in a Facebook post that a legal defense team was being set up in preparation for filing the request. She
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Saturday urged moderate Arab nations to make peace with Israel in order to better confront the threat posed by Iran. “After Daesh, Iran,” Liberman tweeted on Saturday, referring to the Islamic State by its Arabic name. “[Late Egyptian President] Anwar Sadat was a brave leader, who went
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Middle EastEgypt opened its largely sealed border with Gaza on Saturday for the first time since a reconciliation agreement saw the Palestinian Authority take control of the crossing from Hamas. A Palestinian official at the Rafah crossing said it had opened at 0700 GMT and was expected to stay open for three days. “Egypt will open
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Middle EastIts “caliphate” has imploded, its de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria have fallen, and hundreds of its fighters have either surrendered or fled. The Islamic State jihadist group may not be dead yet but its dream of statehood has already been buried, analysts say. No one in IS “will now think of imposing ‘the
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Middle EastBy TOI staff Israeli security forces on Saturday raided the home of a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist who carried out a car-ramming attack in the central West Bank a day earlier, Hadashot news (formerly Channel 2) reported. Forces searched the home of the attacker who rammed his car into two people in Gush Etzion south of
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Middle EastRussia has blocked for the third time in a month attempts at the United Nations to extend an international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A draft resolution tabled by Japan would have extended the UN-led joint investigative mechanism (JIM) for 30 days enabling time for talks on a wider compromise. But Moscow vetoed
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International, Middle EastBy TOI staff Veteran Army Radio reporter Hadas Shtaif on Saturday accused former prime minister Ehud Olmert of sexually harassing her some years ago. Shtaif said that upon leaving the Channel 1 studio, Olmert pressed her up against the wall and “whispered in my ear.” He then allegedly touched her ear “with his disgusting tongue.
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Middle EastThe attorney for senior White House aide Jared Kushner is blasting two long-time Republican and Democratic senators for creating a “media event” with their public complaint that Mr. Kushner failed to turn over all pertinent emails. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican, and ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, released a letter
HARARE, Zimbabwe �� During elections nine years ago, Zimbabwe ruling party thugs banged on Nonoza Ncube’s door at 2 a.m., took her to a temporary military-style base and beat her on her back and legs with clubs. Yet when she heard that ruling party ZANU-PF war veterans were staging a mass rally in Harare, the
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InternationalAntonio Ledezma, the ousted mayor of Caracas, was greeted by family members at Madrid airport on Saturday morning. One of Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leaders, he had flown from the Colombian capital Bogota to Madrid. “In Spain today I feel free,” he said at Barajas airport. He was cheered by supporters, who chanted the Venezuelan
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InternationalLebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who arrived in Paris from Riyadh on Saturday, has told President Michel Aoun in a phonecall that he plans to return to Beirut by Wednesday, for the Independence Day celebrations, state-run media reported. Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister earlier this month while in Saudi Arabia. He and his wife
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Middle EastA new video went viral this week on the internet that showed an 89-year-old begging for help from two nurses at the Northeast Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation Center in Woodstock, Georgia, as he has breathing problems and the nurses are seen laughing and failing to take life-saving measures as the man dies after some time.
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