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Moroccan Writer Mahi Binebine Wins 2020 “Prix Mediterranee”

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Moroccan Writer Mahi Binebine Wins 2020 “Prix Mediterranee”

Mahi Binebine
Mahi Binebine

Moroccan writer and painter Mahi Binebine has won the 2020 “Prix Mediterranee” award for his latest French novel “Rue du pardon” (Street of Forgiveness).

Binebine had been shortlisted for the 35th “Prix Mediterranee” alongside French novelist Sylvain Coher for his novel “Vaincre a Rome” (To Defeat in Rome), and Lebanese writer Yasmine Khlat for her book “Egypte 51” (Egypt 51).

Organizers said Monday that the Moroccan writer will receive the award on October 3 during a ceremony to be organized in the southern French city of Perpignan.

During the event, Italian writer Giosuè Calaciura will be handed “the Overseas Mediterranean Prize 2020” for his novel Borgo Vecchio.

Created in 1982, the “Prix Mediterranee” annually awards a book written in French and narrating stories from around the Mediterranean.

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UK Foreign Minister Faces Fine After JD Vance Fishing Trip License Error

US Vice President JD Vance fishes with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, Britain, August 8, 2025. (Reuters)
US Vice President JD Vance fishes with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, Britain, August 8, 2025. (Reuters)
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UK Foreign Minister Faces Fine After JD Vance Fishing Trip License Error

US Vice President JD Vance fishes with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, Britain, August 8, 2025. (Reuters)
US Vice President JD Vance fishes with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy at Chevening House in Sevenoaks, Britain, August 8, 2025. (Reuters)

Britain's foreign minister David Lammy could be on the hook for a 2,500 pounds ($3,394) fine following his fishing trip last week with US Vice President JD Vance, after admitting he didn't have the required license.

Vance and Lammy were pictured by invited media as they fished in the lake at the foreign minister's Chevening country residence in southeast England before a bilateral meeting as part of the vice president's working holiday to Britain.

The vice president later joked on camera that the only strain on the US-British special relationship was that while his three children had caught fish, the British foreign minister had not.

All anglers are required by law to have a valid rod license while they are fishing, regardless of whether they catch anything and whether they are on private land. Breaches can be punished with a fine of up to 2,500 pounds ($3,394).

Lammy's office on Wednesday said he had not purchased the license before the trip and had since sought to rectify the mistake.

"The Foreign Secretary has written to the Environment Agency over an administrative oversight that meant the appropriate licenses had not been acquired for fishing on a private lake as part of a diplomatic engagement at Chevening House last week," a spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office said in a statement.

"As soon as the Foreign Secretary was made aware of the administrative error, he successfully purchased the relevant rod fishing licenses."

The spokesperson had no immediate comment on whether a license had been purchased for Vance too.

Vance is in England with his wife Usha and their children, who are spending this week in the hamlet of Dean in the picturesque Cotswolds, following their stay at Chevening.