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A Moroccan cybercrime ring has taken a liking to gift card fraud, stealing victims’ personal information and using it to buy and sell gift cards for profit, in a venture that generates the group up to US$100,000 per day, according to a Microsoft intelligence report.

A Moroccan asylum seeker who said he was inspired by “revenge” for the Israel-Hamas conflict has been convicted of murdering a pensioner out walking in the street.

Terrified Shaun Lewin, 45, says a massacre would have taken place in the tourist resort of Agadir, Morocco, had it not been for brave beach staff who chased the knifeman into the sea as police swooped

The knifeman ran into the sea and attempted to flee police by swimming away from the scene before being caught and taken into custody

A woman decided to get a tattoo while travelling in Morocco to remember her trip - but people are shocked that she decided on an obscure word to get permanently inked onto her

Retired schoolteacher David Barden, 71, travelled to Morocco to take part in a charity bike ride, but died in tragic circumstances when a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck

Members of UK International Search and Rescue are scouring huge piles of rubble in Morocco in the desperate hope that some buried by the earthquake earlier this month may still be alive.

The UK’s International Search and Rescue team told how they checked remote villages for survivors following the devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,900 people

Elżbieta Kiełkowska, from Glasgow, said the tremors felt 150 miles from the epicentre at her hotel in Ouazazate, Morocco, were so strong that her shoes fell off her feet as everything was "vibrating all around us" like a "washing machine"

Just hours after the strong and rare earthquake struck on Friday night, the unidentified London-based doctor drove 1,800 miles to the epicentre near the Moroccan capital of Marrakech

Scenes of devastation were clear to see in Moroccan village where one in 10 people died in Friday's earthquake, as one heartbroken mum crouched at a crater where her son’s body was found

EasyJet, Ryanair, TUI and British Airways have given advice to customers due to head out to Morocco over the coming days, after the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office updated its travel advice

Rebecca Calvert, 63, and friend Hilary Mckegney, 64, had just arrived in the remote village of Imlil in the Atlas Mountains to go hiking when the catastrophic 7.2 earthquake struck

There were major fears for Rebecca Calvert and Hilary Mckegney after they were caught up in the devastating 6.8 magnitude tremor, but the women have now made contact with their families

The quake was the strongest to hit the nation’s centre in more than a century and many people are feared to still be trapped under the rubble deep in the Atlas Mountains, including holidaymakers that are still missing

A powerful earthquake centred in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains has killed more than 2,000 people as buildings collapsed and people have fled with more shocks expected to hit

Villages have been flattened, streets have become rivers of rubble and relatives desperately search for lost loved ones after Morocco's most powerful earthquake in 120 years

Rebecca Calvert and friend Hilary Mckegney, who were on holiday in Marrakech, have not been in touch with loved ones since Morocco's most powerful quake in 120 years hit

More than 1,000 people have died in Morocco after a powerful and rare earthquake, sparking a desperate rescue mission amid horrific scenes in and around the High Atlas mountains

Many people across Morocco were just settling into sleep when the tremors began around 11pm, eventually killing over 800 people

The shooting sparked anger in Morocco after a fisherman posted disturbing footage of a lifeless body floating in the sea and one surviving brother recounted the ordeal

The customer has blasted Ryanair after as many as 200 people were reportedly left stranded in 40C heat with 'no water' when their flight was diverted 150 miles away from its destination

Jane Benzaquen, 70, says her mother had an affair with King Hassan II of Morocco in the 1950s, resulting in her birth but she was taken to Belgium and raised in a foster family

A man has been arrested after an attempted kidnap of a two-year-old girl on an unnamed beach in Ibiza, with an off-duty police officer said to have stepped in on hearing the child's mum screaming

The BBC have issued an apology after a reporter caused a ruckus at Morocco's pre-Germany press conference at the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand