Legal disputes and acrimony have replaced the accolades and euphoria for Morocco’s national soccer team ahead of this year’s World Cup.

Five-times world champions Brazil — they have won more World Cups than any other country — are clear favorites to win the group under the guidance of Carlo Ancelotti. Morocco will be hoping to relive the dream of the 2022 edition, when they finished fourth and became the first Arab and African nation to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup.

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RABAT, June 5 (Reuters) - The European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending arm of the European Union, said on Friday it had loaned another 500 million euros ($578 million) to Morocco for infrastructure upgrading in areas hit by an earthquake three years ago.

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Morocco has become Quebec travelers’ top destination this summer, according to The Travel, citing new data from flight booking platform FlightHub tracking round-trip international departures from Montreal.

The idea, she later detailed on the phone, was a trip to Morocco. Grace was restless and in need of adventure and, in retrospect, probably knew that it would take little effort to convince me that daydreams of meandering around souks and traipsing along dunes would stave off the March New England winter doldrums.

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) has once again turned to family support as the key ingredient behind the team's success in Qatar

The 13th edition of the Global Rights Index, issued by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), has classified Morocco among countries where workers’ rights are subject to «regular violations».