Cisco enters Morocco Cisco announced today that its Casablanca office has become the first business premises in Morocco to offer Cisco TelePresence exchanges. Unveiled in Cisco's Casablanca offices last week, the Cisco TelePresence solution offers a live, face-to-face experience that enables people from different offices and cities around the world to meet virtually using the power of the network. Cisco TelePresence meeting participants can share content, create high-quality video recordings of events, consult with experts, and deliver powerful personalized services, all using the network for an immersive in-person experience. In Morocco, Cisco TelePresence technology offers more than a virtual meeting experience for businesses. Health care professionals, for example, will be able to collaborate more easily, regardless of location, thereby improving both the timeliness and the quality of care delivered. US may send Algerian detainees back The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the United States to send two Guantánamo Bay detainees back to Algeria even though they want to remain at the prison because they fear they might be tortured in their home country. The court on Saturday declined to hear the appeal of Aziz Abdul Naji, who was captured in Pakistan and has been held since 2002 at Guantánamo, in Cuba. That ruling came after the court's decision late Friday that allowed the federal government to proceed in transferring another Algerian detainee, Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, back home. Call for ‘compromise' over ‘Tunisia' mosque Angry residents fired questions at the man who designed a controversial mosque on the site of a former Preston hospital. Architect Al Samarraie faced an audience of around 100 people who packed into St Clare's Parish Church hall in Fulwood on Friday evening. They wanted answers to a string of questions about the building planned for the one-time maternity site on the corner of Sharoe Green Lane and Kingsfold Avenue, which has space for 600 prayer mats. Maltese, Libyan boats share rescued migrants Maltese and Libyan patrol boats shared out 55 migrants found on a dinghy some 44 miles south of Malta yesterday. 28 migrants, including a baby, were brought to Malta at 4 a.m. this morning by AFM patrol boat P-52 while another 27 were taken from the sinking dinghy to a Libyan vessel which intercepted the migrants at the same time as the Maltese patrol craft. The migrants brought to Malta were 22 men, five women and the baby. They were the first migrant arrivals this year. The baby along with the mother were taken to Mater Dei Hospital. Beijing works a Chinese puzzle as Sudan prepares to split As China flexes its muscles as an international power, it is finding its national interests and much-touted objection to interference in the domestic affairs of independent states do not always mesh comfortably. The current case in point is the forthcoming referendum — after more than 50 years of civil war — on the separation of Sudan, where China has major oil interests, into the largely Arab and Muslim north and the black African Christian and animist south. For many years, Beijing has been a dogged and important supporter of the government of Sudan, dominated by the Arab north and its leader Omar al-Bashir, who is under international indictment for crimes against humanity. BM
