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Migrants wade through the water near the border with Morocco as they attempt to enter Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday. Photo: AFP
Spain

France, Italy tighten borders after 60,000 migrants enter Spain’s Ceuta

France is increasing its border police presence fivefold while Italy has suspended its Schengen agreement with Spain.

Africa

African nations push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations

Tourism

Want to write like an award-winning author? This Moroccan masterclass might help

Japan

Japan plans conveyor belt that can move 25,000 drivers’ worth of freight a day

The proposed Tokyo-Osaka ‘Autoflow-Road’ transport system could carry the same amount of freight as 25,000 truck drivers every day.

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A truck pulls out of a port in Tokyo as cargo containers are loaded on and off vehicles. Photo: AFP
History

Why we still love globes, and the ‘political minefield’ of making them

In this age of Google Earth and GPS, people still buy globes – they help us ‘find our place in the cosmos’, one maker says, adding that countries can be very sensitive about their territory’s depiction.

China-Africa relations

In the Sahara Desert, Chinese labourers work to build a 575km rail line. Why?

Chinese workers are building a railway in the Sahara Desert, in China’s latest step in diversifying its iron ore supply.

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Africa

‘A little bit tired’: UK man reaches goal of running length of Africa

Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook reached the northernmost point of Africa on Sunday, almost a year after he set off from its southern tip.

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Britain’s Russ Cook celebrates on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Opinion | Second Trump term would worsen Palestinian cause

The former US president has a track record of helping Israel at the Palestinians’ expense. If he wins a second term, Donald Trump’s foreign policy could lead to increased warfare in the region.

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Spain

Anti-racists slam blackface use in Spain’s Epiphany parades

The practice of parade participants painting their faces black with exaggerated, red-painted lips tarnishes the memory of enslaved people and disempowers black children, says black politician Rita Bosaho.

Israel-Gaza war

Thousands of Moroccans rally against Gaza war, Israel ties

The crowd of about 10,000 people in Rabat denounced what protest leaders called a ‘war of extermination’ as well as the normalisation of relations between Morocco and Israel.

Moroccans burn an Israeli flag during a protest in Rabat on Sunday, in solidarity with Gaza. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Gaza hospital blast revives support for Palestine as fury spreads in Mideast

Within hours of a blast that was said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, there was a furious response around the Muslim world.

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Demonstrators in Yemen carry weapons as they protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues. Photo: Reuters
Natural disasters

Politics slowing aid after Morocco quake, Libya flooding

The responses in both Morocco and Libya – one a stable nation, the other torn by war and ruled by rival governments – show the difficulty of separating humanitarian aid from political considerations.

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Italy

41 migrants, including 3 kids, missing after Mediterranean shipwreck

Their metal boat overturned in bad weather during the night of Thursday to Friday after setting off from Tunisia, said a joint statement from the UN agencies for refugees, children and migration.

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Middle East

Arab states sour on Israel in blow to US aim of Saudi peace pact

Tensions between Gulf states and Israel are rising three years after historic peace deals, slowing down hoped-for investments and setting back US efforts to further integrate the region by including main power Saudi Arabia.

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The United Arab Emirates has expressed frustration in high-level contacts with Israel about the outcome of the 2020 Abraham Accords. File photo: AFP
European Union

Key suspect in EU corruption scandal cuts deal with prosecutors

The alleged ringleader of a European Union cash-for-influence corruption scandal linked to Qatar and Morocco has decided to reveal information about the affair in exchange for a lighter sentence.

The European Parliament is reeling from the corruption scandal, where four people, have been arrested. File photo: EPA-EFE
Fifa

Fifa World Cup 2022: Morocco fans scramble for tickets for Spain match

The last Arab and African side still in the tournament, Morocco has been willed on by some of most impassioned supporters at the event.

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Climate change

Outside In | After 27 years of failed climate meetings, we need a new approach

After the COP27 talks in Egypt ended with yet more dodged commitments, there is a sense that these mega meetings are not fit for purpose. Perhaps real agreements on climate action, driven by formal scientific guidance, should be made away from the media glare, to avoid grandstanding.

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Extreme weather

Britain, France brace for hottest day as Europe fires rage

London is predicted to be hotter than the Caribbean, the Western Sahara and popular holiday destinations in Europe as temperatures soar to record-breaking highs early this week.

Britain’s first-ever extreme heat warning is in effect for large parts of England as hot, dry weather that has scorched mainland Europe for the past week moves north, disrupting travel, health care and schools. Photo: AP
Spain

23 migrants dead in mass crossing into Spanish enclave, says Morocco

Video images of apparent aftermath of mass crossing attempt of 2,000 into Spanish enclave Melilla showed bleeding and motionless people.

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Ukraine war

‘Fair trial’ urged for Moroccan fighter facing death penalty in Ukraine

Moroccan man Brahim Saadoun was sentenced to death this month in a pro-Moscow separatist region of Ukraine for fighting on behalf of Ukrainian forces.

Human rights

Opinion | How Russia learned from West’s actions in Iraq, Kosovo and Guantanamo Bay

Legal solidarity with Ukraine is certainly right but it raises troubling questions about Western double standards, and how this undermines the rules-based international order the West says it champions.

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A woman stands next to her home which has been reduced to rubble in Irpin, near Kyiv in Ukraine, on May 3. Photo: AP
Books and literature

How Stories of the Sahara inspired a creative director to succeed

When Penelope Luk, creative director of Crafts on Peel, read Stories of the Sahara – the defining work of celebrated Chinese travel writer Sanmao – it changed her life forever.

When Penelope Luk, creative director of Crafts on Peel, read travelogue Stories of the Sahara, it changed her life forever.
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