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'No Changes': Google Denies Removing Western Sahara Border For Morocco Users
The dotted lines illustrating the border between Western Sahara and Morocco, indicating the former's disputed territory status, have never been visible to people using Google Maps in the latter, the company told AFP on Tuesday.
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16 Migrants Dead In Shipwreck Off Tunisia, Search On For 44 Missing People
Sixteen migrants have died in shipwrecks off the coasts of Tunisia and Western Sahara, officials said Monday, as North Africa faces a spike in Europe-bound sea crossings.
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US Opens "Virtual" Presence In Western Sahara Ahead Of Consulate
The United States will open a "virtual" diplomatic post in Western Sahara ahead of a consulate, the State Department said Thursday, after recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory earlier this month.
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Morocco Hails Homecoming To African Union After 33 Years
"I am finally home", King Mohammed VI said Tuesday as the African Union readmitted Morocco after a 33-year absence, deferring the issue of Western Sahara for another day.
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Morocco Wants To Rejoin African Union: King Mohammed VI
Morocco wants to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after quitting the bloc in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member, King Mohammed VI said Sunday.
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UN Chief Disappointed By Security Council On Western Sahara
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was disappointed by the Security Council's failure to take a strong stand in a dispute between him and Morocco over Western Sahara and will raise it with council members soon, Ban's spokesman said on Friday.
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UN Chief Visits Refugee Camps To Push For Western Sahara Conflict Talks
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria on Saturday as part of efforts to restart negotiations to end a dispute between the Polisario independence movement and Morocco over the Western Sahara territory.
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UN Chief Plans Later Visit To Western Sahara
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Western Sahara later this year where the United Nations is seeking to end a 40-year conflict with Morocco, his spokesman said Monday.
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UN Chief Wants Western Sahara Talks Soon
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Wednesday for negotiations in the coming months to settle the frozen conflict over Western Sahara, at the center of tensions between Morocco and African countries.
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UN Wants 'Understanding' of Western Sahara Human Rights Situation
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for an "independent and impartial understanding" of human rights in the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara, according to a report seen by Reuters on Friday.
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Thousands Protest in Spain Over Western Sahara
Several thousand people demonstrated in Madrid on Sunday in support of independence for the disputed territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in northwestern Africa.
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Huge Sahara hostage siege turns Mali war global
Islamist gunmen holding dozens of Western hostages and scores of Algerians at a gas plant deep in the Sahara desert let some of them speak to the media on Thursday to warn that they would be blown up if the site is stormed.
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Algerian desert hostage siege turns Mali war global
Islamist fighters have opened an international front in Mali's civil war by taking dozens of Western hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert just as French troops launched an offensive against rebels in neighbouring Mali.
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Seven dead in riot following football match in Morocco
Seven people were killed in a riot following a football match in Morocco's disputed Western Sahara region, the state news agency reported on Tuesday.
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'No Changes': Google Denies Removing Western Sahara Border For Morocco Users
The dotted lines illustrating the border between Western Sahara and Morocco, indicating the former's disputed territory status, have never been visible to people using Google Maps in the latter, the company told AFP on Tuesday.
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16 Migrants Dead In Shipwreck Off Tunisia, Search On For 44 Missing People
Sixteen migrants have died in shipwrecks off the coasts of Tunisia and Western Sahara, officials said Monday, as North Africa faces a spike in Europe-bound sea crossings.
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US Opens "Virtual" Presence In Western Sahara Ahead Of Consulate
The United States will open a "virtual" diplomatic post in Western Sahara ahead of a consulate, the State Department said Thursday, after recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory earlier this month.
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Morocco Hails Homecoming To African Union After 33 Years
"I am finally home", King Mohammed VI said Tuesday as the African Union readmitted Morocco after a 33-year absence, deferring the issue of Western Sahara for another day.
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Morocco Wants To Rejoin African Union: King Mohammed VI
Morocco wants to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after quitting the bloc in protest at its decision to accept Western Sahara as a member, King Mohammed VI said Sunday.
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UN Chief Disappointed By Security Council On Western Sahara
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was disappointed by the Security Council's failure to take a strong stand in a dispute between him and Morocco over Western Sahara and will raise it with council members soon, Ban's spokesman said on Friday.
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UN Chief Visits Refugee Camps To Push For Western Sahara Conflict Talks
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria on Saturday as part of efforts to restart negotiations to end a dispute between the Polisario independence movement and Morocco over the Western Sahara territory.
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UN Chief Plans Later Visit To Western Sahara
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Western Sahara later this year where the United Nations is seeking to end a 40-year conflict with Morocco, his spokesman said Monday.
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UN Chief Wants Western Sahara Talks Soon
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Wednesday for negotiations in the coming months to settle the frozen conflict over Western Sahara, at the center of tensions between Morocco and African countries.
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UN Wants 'Understanding' of Western Sahara Human Rights Situation
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for an "independent and impartial understanding" of human rights in the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara, according to a report seen by Reuters on Friday.
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Thousands Protest in Spain Over Western Sahara
Several thousand people demonstrated in Madrid on Sunday in support of independence for the disputed territory of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in northwestern Africa.
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Huge Sahara hostage siege turns Mali war global
Islamist gunmen holding dozens of Western hostages and scores of Algerians at a gas plant deep in the Sahara desert let some of them speak to the media on Thursday to warn that they would be blown up if the site is stormed.
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Algerian desert hostage siege turns Mali war global
Islamist fighters have opened an international front in Mali's civil war by taking dozens of Western hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert just as French troops launched an offensive against rebels in neighbouring Mali.
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Seven dead in riot following football match in Morocco
Seven people were killed in a riot following a football match in Morocco's disputed Western Sahara region, the state news agency reported on Tuesday.
