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Thursday, March 11, 2010 Ishrat Hyatt Islamabad A lively group of women of the Islamabad Accueil met, after a long time, here to mark International Women's Day.

Comment about "EU demands more rights progress from Morocco" Phone Name Comment 0 EU demands more rights progress from Morocco AFP Demonstrators holding flags as they call for the independence of Western Sahara during a demonstration in Granada, Spain, yesterday.

Today is Friday, March 5, the 64th day of 2010. There are 301 days left in the year.

ALGIERS: Algeria's ruling elite is split by infighting which could jeopardise stability in the oil and gas exporter, an official in the governing coalition says.

LATE last month Chouaib Oultache walked into Algeria's police headquarters with a score to settle.

Algerian national police chief Col. Ali Tounsi has been assassinated at a time of mounting political tension caused by a power struggle between President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his intelligence services.

The UCSB Department of Theater & Dance has come up with a fairly exotic offering to close February and open March: six performances of Euripides' melodrama The Trojan Women , in an adaptation by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and rendered from French into English by Ronald Duncan .

Plans to honour the Nobel prize-winning author in his country of birth have sparked a row over his stance on Algerian independence "What they did not like," wrote Albert Camus of his fictionalised double in his unfinished last novel, The First Man , "was the Algerian in him." Fifty years after the death of the Nobel prize-winning author of The ...

The powerful chief of Algeria's national police was shot and killed by a colleague during a meeting Thursday in his office at the North African country's security headquarters, a law enforcement official said.

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has received a message from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria.

ALGIERS: Algeria recalled its ambassador to Mali yesterday to protest the West African country's decision to free four suspected Islamist militants demanded by Al Qaeda in exchange for sparing the life of a French hostage.

Early Wednesday astronauts aboard the International Space Station finished installing the seven-window cupola , which will afford crew members a grand view of Earth and the cosmos.

Algerian security forces killed three terrorists and arrested as many in operations in the north, local el-Khabar newspaper reported Saturday.

I SPRINTED into a shop in Algiers. The weather was very cold. Although it was not raining, people were getting wet.

Martin Indyk, vice president and director of foreign policy at Brookings Institution; Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan; the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani; John Kerry, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Abdelaziz Belkhadem, special envoy of Algeria's President ...

ALGIERS: Algeria will attend a pre-World Cup training camp in Italy and have organised a friendly against the Republic of Ireland before heading to South Africa in June.

Renault, the French car maker, is to build its next factory in Algeria, news reports in France say.

The Arabs have a long tradition of raiding, or ghazi , going back to their nomadic Bedouin days.

Djamel Bendimered, veteran of the war of independence and owner of the biggest brickyard in western Algeria, asked: "What crisis?" and said: "There's work and money here for a long time to come." Before him sprawled 20km of Tlemcen and its outskirts, 250,000 people.

Paris - Several officials in France expressed concerns on Tuesday about a proposal by Algerian lawmakers who want to prosecute crimes committed decades ago by the French, the North African country's former colonial rulers.