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Morocco Says Arrested 10 People over Thwarted Terror Plots

File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Morocco Says Arrested 10 People over Thwarted Terror Plots

File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Moroccan authorities said on Monday they had arrested 10 people, including a minor, involved in foiled "terrorist plots" across several cities.

The kingdom's Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) said in a statement carried by state news agency MAP that the suspects were linked to ISIS in the Sahel region, AFP reported.

Simultaneous raids were carried out in several cities, including Casablanca and Agadir, to foil the "extremely dangerous" plots which were "in an advanced stage of preparation", the authorities said.

Searches uncovered "manuscripts detailing the manufacture of explosive devices" and recordings of a pledge of allegiance to IS, the statement said.

In Inezgane, near Agadir, police also discovered a vehicle with its "fuel tank modified to run on butane gas", meant for a "suicide bombing or a car-ramming attack", the statement added.

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Algeria's FLN Gets Most Seats in Parliament with Record Low Turnout

The FLN secured 90 of the parliament's 407 seats in the July 2 poll (File photo/AFP)
The FLN secured 90 of the parliament's 407 seats in the July 2 poll (File photo/AFP)
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Algeria's FLN Gets Most Seats in Parliament with Record Low Turnout

The FLN secured 90 of the parliament's 407 seats in the July 2 poll (File photo/AFP)
The FLN secured 90 of the parliament's 407 seats in the July 2 poll (File photo/AFP)

Algeria's legislative elections saw a record low turnout, with just 21 percent of the 25-million electorate casting ballots, as the incumbent National Liberation Front (FLN) won the most seats, the election board said on Monday, AFP reportd.

The FLN secured 90 of the parliament's 407 seats in the July 2 poll, which was marred by public apathy and controversy over the government's disqualification of roughly a third of would-be candidates.

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Palestinian Technocratic Committee Says Ready to Govern Gaza

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
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Palestinian Technocratic Committee Says Ready to Govern Gaza

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/File Photo

The Palestinian technocratic committee set up by the Board of Peace established by US President Donald Trump said Monday it was ready to govern the Gaza Strip after Hamas announced it had dissolved its ruling body.

"We affirm that the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza is fully prepared to assume its national responsibilities as soon as the necessary resources and capabilities are available," Ali Shaath, head of the committee, wrote on X.

Later on Monday, Hamas announced it had officially dissolved its de facto government in Gaza and signalled it was ready to hand over to the group of Palestinian technocrats, as it presses Israel to honor other parts of a stalled US-backed peace plan.

The group's promise to end the body overseeing ministries — which has run for more than a decade — was a key part of the plan for a post-war Gaza set out by US President Donald Trump after the start of a fragile ceasefire with Israel in October.

Hamas said the ministries themselves and the staff it had appointed would stay in place and it would still oversee security and policing in parts of Gaza left under its control following the US-brokered truce.

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Lebanese President: Israeli Occupation Prevents Army Deployment in the South

This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows an Israeli army tank being positioned along the Israel-Lebanon border, on July 1, 2026. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) /
This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows an Israeli army tank being positioned along the Israel-Lebanon border, on July 1, 2026. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) /
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Lebanese President: Israeli Occupation Prevents Army Deployment in the South

This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows an Israeli army tank being positioned along the Israel-Lebanon border, on July 1, 2026. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) /
This picture taken from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel shows an Israeli army tank being positioned along the Israel-Lebanon border, on July 1, 2026. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) /

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Monday that the continued Israeli "occupation" of southern Lebanon is preventing the deployment of the Lebanese army, as the two sides prepare to implement a framework agreement providing for a gradual Israeli military withdrawal followed by the phased deployment of Lebanese armed forces.

Aoun stressed, according to a statement carried by the presidency, "the importance of pressuring Israel to withdraw from the areas it occupies in Lebanon," adding that "the continued occupation undermines the state's legitimacy, prevents the army's deployment, and obstructs the foundations for achieving a just and lasting peace."

Lebanon entered the war on March 2 after Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel, saying the attack was in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28.

Israel responded with an extensive bombing campaign and a ground offensive while intensifying calls for the evacuation of large areas of southern Lebanon.

Under a framework agreement reached between Lebanon and Israel in the United States on June 26, the Lebanese army is to reassert its authority across southern Lebanon, provided Hezbollah is disarmed, beginning with "pilot areas" from which Israeli forces will withdraw.