Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Netherlands in Morocco

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Royal activity
King receives Crown Prince of Holland

HM King Mohammed VI, accompanied by HRH Prince Moulay Rachid, received on Monday, in his Royal Palace in Marrakech, Netherlands' Crown Prince Willem-Alexander.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, is visiting Morocco to attend the celebrations marking the fourth century of Moroccan-Dutch relations.

MAP news agency reported that Crown Prince Willem-Alexander had addressed earlier a colloquium on water organised by the Moroccan-Dutch 400-year Foundation, during which he called for an urgent and joint cooperation action to secure a better and rational management of water resources both in Morocco and Holland.

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no piccy
no looky!

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Montreal
Canada-based Moroccans march in solidarity with abducted nationals in Iraq

Moroccan expatriates in Canada marched on Sunday in Montreal, the cosmopolitan town of French-speaking Quebec, to call for the immediate release of the two Moroccans abducted by Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Demonstrators gathered in Montreal's main square, carrying Moroccan flags and portraits of the two kidnapped nationals, driver Abderrahim Boualem, 55, and maintenance employee Abdelkrim el-Mouhafidi, 49, MAP news agency reported.

Similar demonstrations were staged in the Moroccan cities of Rabat and El-Jadida, where participants called on national and international NGOs to join efforts to release the two Moroccans, added the same source.

A national march, featuring politicians and civil society activists, was held last week in Casablanca to denounce terrorism and urge Al-Zarqawi's militant group to spare the lives of the two men, after the legislative authority of al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq had sentenced them to death.

Boualem and el-Mouhafidi are both married to Iraqi women and have been living in Iraq for over 20 years, working at the Moroccan Embassy in Baghdad. They were abducted by al-Zarqawi's Iraq-based terrorist group on Oct. 20, as they were on their way back from the Moroccan Embassy in Jordan, where they had picked up their salaries.

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LOL I read le Matin too!

So who's that dude anyway?

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As a news agency SBS rivals MAP for accuracy and timeliness and truth...