Prince Moulay Rachid chaired, on Friday in Casablanca, a ceremony to award HM King Mohammed VI's Grand Prix for horse race, organized by the Moroccan Royal Horse Society, on the occasion of the 9th International Race Day for Arabian horses.

Three fishermen were rescued on Sunday off the central city of Mohammedia after they were found alive on a rock just above the surface of water, a port source reported.

Morocco expressed on Saturday its great satisfaction following the signature, Friday in Ouagadougou, of a Declaration laying down the terms of the transitional phase in the Republic of Guinea.

President of the Jewish Community of Marbella (south of Spain) Raphaël Cohen was given the Al Arch Wissam of the Knight order awarded by HM King Mohammed VI.

American actor Jeff Fahey, known for his commitment to defending the refugees' rights worldwide, said that it is high time to end the plight of the populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps, Southwestern Algeria, the Washington Post said.

The court of appeal of Salé (near Rabat) sentenced, on Thursday, two men to 6 and 10 years in prison, under the anti-terror law.

Professor Abdelhamid El Ouali Member of the recently created Advisory Committee on Regionalization urged, on Saturday, Moroccan expatriates in France to showcase the credibility and the serious nature of Morocco's autonomy initiative for its southern provinces, Sahara.

Seven people were killed in a road accident on Thursday in the eastern province of Figuig, local authorities said.

Inspector general of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) and Commander of the southern zone, General Abdelaziz Bennani, received on Tuesday a Qatari delegation led by Chief of Staff of the Qatar Armed Forces, Major General (MG) Hamad bin Ali Al-Attiya.

Morocco and Qatar signed, here on Tuesday, a military cooperation agreement.

The court of appeals of Casablanca overturned, on Tuesday, the prison term given by a lower court to Rachid Nini, director of the daily Al Massae and a journalist from the newspaper.

Nine terrorism suspects appeared, on Thursday, before the examining judge of the Appellate court of Casablanca, part of the anti-terror law.