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Bomb wounds 9 in southeast Algeria
A bomb exploded near a police convoy accompanying foreign workers in Algeria on Friday, injuring nine people including two French and one Italian, official news agency APS reported.
Twin car bombs kill 67
Sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry source said, in the bloodiest attack since an undeclared civil war in the 1990s. ...Car bomb at Algerian police station kills four
A car bomb hit a police station in Algeria on Wednesday in an attack that state radio said killed four policemen and injured 20 people....Algeria car bomb on police post kills two
A car bomb attack on a police station killed two people and wounded 23 in a town east of Algiers on Tuesday, the second such bombing in the north African country in a month, the interior ministry said. ...
Algeria bus station bomb kills 20 people
A bomb exploded on Monday at a bus station in a town east of Algiers, killing 20 people, a security source said. ...Algeria car bomb wounds 25, ministry says
A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 25 people including four policemen, the Algerian government said. ...Algeria terrorist attack kills 43 and wounds 38
A bomb attack east of Algiers on Tuesday killed 43 people and wounded 38, the Algerian interior ministry said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in years....Double car bombing in Algeria kills at least 11 people
A double car bombing in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, a day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy, the Algerian press agency APS said quoting the Interior Ministry. ...Algeria suicide car bomb kills 6, injures 18
A suicide car bomb attack on security forces killed at least six civilians east of Algiers late on Saturday, the second such blast this month, authorities in OPEC member Algeria said on Sunday. ...Algeria's president on visit to Iran
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad today officially welcomed his Algerian counterpart, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika....Algeria confirms killing of its diplomats in Iraq
The Algerian presidency on Wednesday confirmed the killing of its two diplomats in Iraq. The two men were announced kidnapped in Iraq last Thursday and a statement on their execution was issued on Wednesday....Zarqawi: Butaflika killed believers
Al-Jihad al-Qaida organizations in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, criticized in a statement on Thursday the Alegrain President and the "The Murtadin" (those who are no longer Muslims because of their conduct) who deplored the killing of the two Algerian diplomats in Iraq. Al-Qaida threatened to target other diplomats....Judiciary extends Balhah's detention, two Algerian soldiers killed
Two Algerian soldiers were killed and other four members of the municipal guards were killed in an attack on Saturday at a military vehicle west of the capital Algiers....Five ambushed by gunmen in west Algeria; increased heat
Algerian press sources announced that five persons were killed and other 8 injured by gunmen in Ein al-Defli in the west of the capital Algiers....Libya -Algeria economic ties
The Libyan-Algerian economic activists held a joint meeting yesterday in Algeria to discuss bilateral cooperation and common investment in a number of economic fields. ...Moroccans in Tunisia denounce Algerian president hostile statements
The Moroccan community living in Tunisia vehemently denounced the statements Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika made to the Tunisian weekly "Realites" harming the territorial integrity of Morocco....Calls for Morocco to stop strike of west Sahara prisoners
The Moroccan human rights committee, one of the major human rights independent groups in Morocco, urged the government on Monday to start talks in order to end the hunger strike carried out by prisoners in the western Sahara demanding improvement of their detention conditions....On a possible Morocco-Algeria summit in the US
US Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack said yesterday that he does not have news on a Moroccan - Algerian reconciliation summit to be held in the United States....HRW on the Algerian amnesty law
Human Rights Watch organization reported in part that: On August 15, the government of Algeria published the text of a long-promised Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation in the Journal Officiel. This came a day after a major speech by President Abdel Aziz Butaflika announcing that Algerians will be asked to approve the Charter in a referendum on September 29.2 The Charter makes good on the pledge first made by President Butaflika on October 31, 2004, to submit to the electorate a new amnesty plan designed to further what he describes as the peace and national reconciliation process begun by his 1999 Civil Harmony Law (Law no 99-08).Ê...Algeria wants good relations with Morocco
The Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika called in a message he sent to the King of Morocco Muhammad VI for establishing "brotherly and remarkable relations" between the two states whose relations have been damaged because of the western Sahara issue....Log in
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- Journalist who wrote about alleged corruption charged, placed under judicial control
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