Algeria News

Seven key players in Algeria's potato industry were part of a delegation visiting New Brunswick this week.

Algeria, a gateway between Africa and Europe, has been battered by violence over the past half-century. More than a million Algerians were killed in the fight for independence from France in 1962, and the country has recently emerged from a brutal internal conflict that followed scrapped elections in 1992.

An Algerian repatriated from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay was resting at home on Monday, his family said, ending a week-long search for him that prompted rights groups to say he could be suffering abuse.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika attends the 15th summit of the African Union Summit in Kampala, capital of Uganda, July 25, 2010.

Algeria is working aggressively to develop its large reserves of oil and gas to offset declines in production from existing fields.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday met with visiting Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo, discussing ways to consolidate and deepen Sino- Algerian strategic and cooperative ties.

Algeria is considering a law requiring an expert valuation, not a market value, for shares in Algerian firms that foreigners sell to the state, a draft document obtained by Reuters showed.

ALGIERS: Algerian prosecutors denied a local newspaper report on Monday that the son of a minister allied to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had been placed under criminal investigation.

About the worst thing the Obama administration could do is close the pleasant little detention center at Guantanamo Bay on the sunny Caribbean isle of Cuba, according to some of the folks who want to make it home.

The victims, local traders who were part of a hunting party, were travelling between the towns of Khenchela and Tebessa, near the border with Tunisia, at the time of the blast.

Alain Tchdry, 78, was born in north Africa in Algiers, capital of Algeria, which was colonised by the French in 1830 and formed three French dA©partments. He lived there until the Algerian war of independence.

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The smile on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's face when he returned from his trip abroad cannot hide what Israel is being dragged into.

Algerian security forces killed three militants in clashes in the northern city of M'Sila, official APS news agency reported.

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Hutus live in fear of attacks International rights groups have condemned Rwanda in recent weeks for clamping down on dissent, curbing freedoms and silencing opponents.

Three Algerian gendarmes were killed and another was injured in an explosion in the northeast region, local el-Khabar newspaper reported.

Egypt's 82-year-old president, Hosni Mubarak, flew to Algeria on Sunday to offer condolences over the death of the Algerian leader's brother, a trip that follows months of tension between the two countries.