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Tunisia: Low turnout at 11.3 per cent in elections second round

11.3 per cent of voters casted their ballot papers during the second round of Sunday elections, Tunisia’s independent elections body, ISIE announced after the poll amid worries for a low turnout after the first round was widely boycotted. Farouk Bouasker, Head of the body made the announcement at a press conference after the poll. Some […]

No Case of Coronavirus Reported so Far in Morocco, Official

No case of coronavirus infection has been reported so far in Morocco, Minister of State for Human Rights and Relations with Parliament Mustapha Ramid said on Monday in Rabat. The national epidemiological surveillance system helped monitor five suspected cases who tested negative to the new coronavirus, said the minister, who was speaking at the weekly […]

Israel: One man’s Loss can be Another’s Gain

Locust invasions are generally decried as plagues that devastate crops and impoverish farmers. The view is not shared by all. On Tuesday, when millions of locusts, wind-driven from the Egyptian Sinai, landed in Kadesh Barnea, the historical spot where Jews are said to have settled when they fled from Egypt in the biblical era, all […]