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Hillary Clinton did two huge favors for Morocco during her tenure as secretary of state while the Clinton Foundation accepted up to $28 million in donations from the country’s ruler, King Mohammed VI, according to new information obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. Clinton and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa Jackson tried to shut down the Florida-based Mosaic Company in 2011, operator of America’s largest phosphate mining facility. Jackson’s close ties and loyalty to the Clintons were revealed when she joined the Clinton Foundation’s board of directors in 2013, just months after she left the EPA....

The US wants North African nations to be firm against terrorism US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the US is to double military aid to Morocco, on a visit to the kingdom. US economic aid will be boosted four-fold over the coming years - a reward for Morocco's support in the US-led war against terror. Mr Powell was speaking in Marrakesh, during a brief tour of North Africa. He later stressed the importance of press freedom, broad political participation and respect for human rights on a visit to Algeria. The visits to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria are...

Religious lecture for the first time given by a woman Morocco, Religion, 11/8/2003 For the first time in the history of Morocco, a woman has given a religious lecture at the traditional lectures organized every Ramadan (fasting month) by the king of Morocco. Rajaa Naji Mekkaoui, a university teacher, presented her lecture before King Mohammed VI at the royal palace in Rabat, which serves as a venue for such event. Her lecture before an audience of scholars and theologians from the Muslim World was entitled "The universality of the family structure in a world of multiple distinctive features." In her...