Fraja Maroc Blog

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When will the Palestinian management admit failure?

If our strategy failed and our political manoeuvres hit a dead-end, is it not the time we change direction? A month after the United States administration’s announcement on the shift in policy on the status of Jerusalem, also described as the end of the US mediation charade, many Palestinians continue to wonder why the Palestinian…

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How will we bridge the widening world inequality gap?

For the past five years, I have carried Oxfam’s call to tackle global inequality to the rich and powerful people attending the World Economic Forum in Davos.  I don’t sing alone there any more. I’m worried my message is almost mainstream, that I sound like I’m part of the choir. I bet nearly every politician…

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Theresa Would possibly maybe slaps down Boris Johnson in front of Cupboard contributors over NHS funding calls for

Theresa May slapped down Boris Johnson in Cabinet today over a string of newspaper stories setting out how the Foreign Secretary is demanding she run the NHS. The Prime Minister and other members of her top team were said to have made clear, as Mr Johnson listened, that policy discussions should take place behind closed…

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Congress to quick discover Muslim self-rule in Mindanao

The Philippine Congress has vowed to fast track a long-delayed bill establishing self-rule for Muslims in the southern island of Mindanao, in response to President Rodrigo Duterte’s warning that another war could break out if the legislation collapses. Three House of Representatives sub-committees are consolidating their reports on Muslim autonomy, and public consultations in seven…

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Has Russia greenlighted Turkey’s Afrin offensive?

Turkey launched its air and ground operation against Kurdish fighters in the Syrian enclave of Afrin on Saturday, with analysts pointing to Moscow’s apparent, tacit approval of the military offensive. Russian forces were withdrawn from the area just before the operation began and Turkish jets were allowed to use the Afrin airspace, controlled by the Syrian…

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Here’s What Trump’s Tariffs on U.S. Imports Are Doing to Markets

President Donald Trump’s move to crack down on what he sees as unfair competition to U.S. firms reverberated around the world as investors assessed the relative impacts on companies hit by tariffs on solar panels and washing machines. American beneficiaries such as First Solar Inc. climbed more than 6 percent in after-hours trading Monday in…

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Amazon’s comfort retailer of the lengthy bustle makes me anxious

If it works — and we’ll learn for sure in the next couple of months — it will utterly revolutionize the way we buy groceries. Scan your phone on the entry turnstile and the store’s army of cameras will begin tracking your every move. Facial, body and object-recognition algorithms will enable the system to spot…

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Here’s why the epidemic of malicious ads grew so great worse remaining year

Enlarge / A tech support scam pushed by Zirconium displays the authenticated URL of Microsoft, making it easy for some people to trust. Last year brought a surge of sketchy online ads to the Internet that tried to trick viewers into installing malicious software. Even credit reporting service Equifax was caught redirecting its website visitors…

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Police arrest suspected rapist, killer of Zainab Ansari

Police have arrested the main suspect involved in the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl in the central Punjab province of Pakistan, a police official told Al Jazeera.  Zainab Ansari was found dead in a rubbish dump on January 9 in Kasur, several days after her disappearance. An autopsy revealed she had been raped and…

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Alaska earthquake prompts tsunami warning

A powerful earthquake off Alaska’s Kodiak Island has prompted a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia while the remainder of the US West Coast was under watch. The quake was recorded about 250km southeast of Kodiak Island early on Tuesday morning. Warnings from the National Weather Service sent…