Dominican Republic seized rifles, ammunition

Morocco Tops North African Countries in Global Knowledge Index

Morocco was ranked first in North Africa and third in the continent in the Global Knowledge Index (GKI), co-established by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF). The GKI aims at measuring knowledge as a broad concept that is intricately related to all aspects of modern human […]

Stolen Multimillion-Euro Baroque Painting Found in Morocco

Moroccan authorities recovered a stolen 17th century Baroque Italian painting worth up to six million euros and informed Italian authorities. Italian paper Gazzetta di Modena reported that the painting by Giovanni Francesco, known as Guercino, had been stolen from a church in the northern Italian city of Modena in 2014. It could have been recovered […]

Algeria-Iran: release of Sonatrach oil tanker seized in Strait of Hormuz

Algeria’s gas and oil company, Sonatrach, announced Sunday that Iranian authorities had freed its oil tanker one hour 15 minutes after it was forced Friday to enter Iranian territorial waters. The tanker, MESDAR, of 2,000,000-capacity, sailing in the Strait of Hormuz was asked by Iranian coastguard to enter territorial waters, on Friday. Sonatrach in a […]