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Most “affordable” apartments in 10 cities (photos)

For millennials wanting to travel around the world and experience life in different cities, the affordability of accommodation is a key factor to deciding where to go. A report from RENTCafe.com is just the right resource to exploring the rent costs in the world’s 30 top financial centres for one-bedroom apartments.

Morocco bans sale of burqas for security reasons

Morocco has banned the production and sale of burqa full-face Muslim veils, apparently for security reasons, media reports said Tuesday. “We have taken the step of completely banning the import, manufacture and marketing of this garment in all the cities and towns of the kingdom,” the Le360 news site quoted a high-ranking interior ministry official as saying.

Europol: Growth in Migrant Trafficking Through Bulgaria Is Disturbing

The growth of migrant trafficking through Bulgaria is disturbing, announced Europol.

The greatest number of traffickers are Turkish, but there are also many Bulgarians, Syrians, Polish, Serbs and Kosovars. About 40,000 migrant traffickers have netted nearly USD 6 B last year.

Moroccan plane floods at Istanbul Atatürk Airport

A Royal Air Maroc plane was flooded on Sept. 28 when its plumbing system broke down at Istanbul Atatürk Airport shortly before take-off, Doğan News Agency has reported.
The cargo hold of the Boeing 767 model carrier bound for the Moroccan capital Casablanca was flooded after a problem occurred with its plumbing system shortly after boarding at 5:05 p.m.

Morocco Travels: Rabat and Casablanca's Mosque (Part 1)

Novinite is publishing the first of three articles about Morocco, where a group of journalists was invited to spend more than a week in November and get to know a country which is not far from Europe, looks fantastic on tourist billboards and draws millions of visitors every year, but Europeans don't know about it as much as one would expect. 

Suspected ISIL scout in Paris attacks arrested in Turkey's Antalya

Turkish police have detained a Belgian man of Moroccan origin on suspicion that he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in attacks that killed 132 people in Paris on Nov. 10.

The suspect, and two others detained for possible links to him, were arrested by a court on Nov. 21.

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