Morocco tourism surges 19% in first half of 2025
Morocco welcomed 8.9 million tourists in the first half of 2025, a 19% year-on-year increase, according to Morocco World
France has returned a 4th-century BC funeral statue to Libya after it was looted from the north African nation and kept in Paris's Louvre Museum.
Stolen amid the 2011 Arab uprisings, the headless bust, which had been part of the Louvre's collection since 2016, commemorates an unnamed man and originates from Shahhat, Libya.
The statue hails from the era when the region was under the Ptolemaic kingdom, an ancient Greek state in Egypt founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals, the Libyan National Museum reports.
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