While its official release in the United States is scheduled for May 17, the film John Wick 3 was subjected to peculiar situations during its shooting. On Saturday, director Chad Stahelski described one of the anecdotes that took place in Essaouira, Morocco. «The Moroccans are not big on canines. Love a f---ing cat, though», he tells Entertainment Weekly. He recalled that when he went to scout the area in the winter, there were not many cats. But when «we
An Irish teenager of Moroccan descent was stabbed to death, Friday, in a park in Dundrum, a suburb of the Irish capital, the Irish Times reports. The 18-year-old identified as Azzam Raguragui drew his last breath at the St James’s Hospital in Dublin after he was mortally wounded at Finsbury Park, Dundrum, at about 8.10 pm. According to Gardai, the Irish police, Raguragui received an «apparent stab wound». The body of the deceased is currently undergoing a postmortem,
Nearly seventy migrants, including nine Moroccans, are believed to have disappeared following the sinking of a makeshift boat that left Libya on Friday to reach the Italian coast. According to figures quoted by the twelve survivors, relayed by the Tunisian media Kapitalis, there would be nearly 70 missing persons in this tragedy, including 51 people from Bangladesh, 9 from Morocco, 3 from Egypt as well as Sub-Saharan nationals. The twelve survivors of the tragedy that occurred, Friday, May
Dutch Labor MEP Kati Piri has launched a symbolic campaign to give streets and avenues in the Netherlands names of Hirak detainees. «Today we changed the names of streets in five cities to give them the names of political prisoners in Morocco. We have not forgotten them and we are fighting for their release», she wrote Saturday, May 11 on her Twitter account. In Den Haag vandaag actie voor de politieke gevangenen in Marokko die tot lange celstraffen zijn veroordeeld.
Morocco has managed to lower the rate of illegal migration into Spain in the last couple of months, according to numbers made public by the Kingdom’s migration and border control chief Khalid Zerouali. Speaking to British news agency Reuters, Zerouali revealed, Friday, that after January, a month during which most of illegal migration crossings took place, the rate of arrivals in Spain through Morocco dwindled significantly. The government's efforts were behind this decline, Zerouali
Head of Morocco’s secret services (DGST) and National Security (DGSN) Abdellatif Hammouchi received, Friday, in his office in Rabat, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Morocco Abdellah Ben Saad Al Ghariri. During this meeting the two senior officials focused on «relations between the two countries and on ways to develop them through various areas of cooperation and bilateral coordination», a Saudi news outlet reported. In June 2018, Morocco’s Interior Minister said in
In South Africa, Loubna Ayouch owns a fashion line that showcases her love for art and clothes. The painter roamed Europe and settled down in Johannesburg, where she combined two of her passions.
During this week, the Polisario Front sent two of its delegations to Europe to attend a series of meetings in both Germany and Italy, the Front’s press agency reported. According to the same source, the president of «the Front’s Sahrawi National Council» Khatri Addouh headed a delegation sent to Germany to discuss «ways of strengthening solidarity on the Western Sahara conflict within the parliament». This visit was also an opportunity for the
Three Muslim women said that they have been discriminated against while working at the warehouses of American e-commerce company Amazon in Minnesota, Business Insider reports. The Amazon workers have filed a federal complaint against the company, claiming that they feared «taking time off to pray or to go to the bathroom in case they were fired». According to the same source, the three women, of Muslim Somali descent, have their complaint backed by the American civil-rights group
On Thursday, a group of blood-donors who wanted to help a person in need, were faced with a series of obstacles before being able to give blood. According to one of these donors, the Ramadan schedule had made blood donations a complicated task.