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Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country’s first female prime minister and the second-woman ever in the Arab world to serve in the position. The royal palace said in a statement on Tuesday that El Mansouri, a 50-year-old urban planning minister and the mayor of Marrakesh, was tasked with forming a new government. El Mansouri said in a televised address her appointment was “truly historic”. “For the first time in our country’s history, a woman is taking on the responsibility of leading the government,” she said. “This is a source of pride not only...

Moroccan King Mohammed VI said his decision to give US President Donald Trump’s name to a US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) highway that crosses into the disputed Western Sahara expresses his “deep appreciation” of the American leader. Hailing Trump’s “historic recognition” of Moroccan rule of the Western Sahara in 2020, the king said it “will forever be etched in the memory of Moroccans” and has “given unprecedented momentum to our bilateral relations”. A resource-rich territory about the size of the UK, the Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and an Algerian-backed independence movement since former colonial ruler Spain withdrew in...

<p>The Moroccan royal family is one of the most ancient and most powerful in the world. It also commands extraordinary loyalty from its subjects.</p> <p>I had been round at Moulay's house for at least 15 seconds.</p> <p>It was, therefore, high time for tea.</p>

Today in the Oval Office, President Bush met with King Mohammed VI of Morocco, and later welcomed 14 year old David Tidmarsh of South Bend, Indiana, winner of the 2004 Scripps Howard Spelling Bee. This afternoon, he spoke via satellite to the League of United Latin American Citizens at their Annual Convention. The Bush campaign released a new, strong anti-Kerry ad, and in good polling news released by the AP, the President moved ahead of Kerry, despite the usual VP bump, and in even better news, in a survey on hair quality, the President soundly beat Kerry by a 51...