Tel Aviv -
Researchers in Israel have unraveled the genetic basis of a hereditary disease that causes severe brain atrophy, mental retardation and epilepsy in Jews of Moroccan ancestry.
Fuengirola -
A 31-year-old Moroccan national, named only as Tareq, died on Thursday afternoon after being shot in the head in a possible "settling of scores."
Washington -
The FBI and the U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Moroccan man Friday in Washington after a "lengthy" investigation into an alleged plot to carry out a suicide attack on the Capitol, the building that houses the U.S. Congress.
A new gay magazine has been launched in Morocco, even though homosexuality is illegal in the country, and anyone caught indulging in gay sex could be jailed.
Moroccan-Dutch youths rioted in Amsterdam overnight Tuesday.
A group of dozens of youths in the Slotervaart neighbourhood in western Amsterdam set cars on fire, damaged several other cars and threw stones through the windows of a police station.