Algeria News

The outlook for the Algerian construction sector in 2012 remains positive but low-key. Reasonable growth rates and rising oil prices are helping to maintain investor confidence in the sector but unrest in the region continues to dampen enthusiasm.

More clashes were also reported in the nearby towns of Sougueur and Rahaouiya, where groups of protesters set up road blocks and battled with security forces.

The national women's Volleyball team is set to kick off their Olympics qualification campaign Thursday evening in Blida Algeria.

ALGIERS: Algeria will hold a parliamentary election in the first half of May, the first in the north African country since a wave of popular uprisings in the region, the prime minister announced on Thursday.

Algeria's new media law falls short of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promises of reform and also fails to meet international standards for freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Twenty countries have confirmed their participation for the second edition of the Asia-Arab Sustainable Energy Forum , scheduled for May 15 - 16 in Oran, Algeria.

Algeria's government will ignite an explosion of unrest if it tries to rig a parliamentary election in May to keep its grip on power, according to the leader of an Islamist opposition party vying for a big share of the vote.

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Algeria's new media law falls short of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promises of reform and also fails to meet international standards for freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Algeria's government on Tuesday authorised the creation of the first new political parties in more than a decade, four months before a parliamentary election when the authorities will be under pressure to allow more democracy.

Algerian security foiled a terrorist al-Qaeda plot to carry out suicidal attacks on U.S. and European ships in the Mediterranean from the eastern costs of Algeria.

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RABAT: Morocco's new foreign minister Saad Eddine Othmani will visit Algiers next week, his ministry said Friday, as Rabat seeks to normalise ties strained for decades over the disputed Western Sahara region.

Dahou Ould Kablia told reporters Wednesday that the kidnapping of Mohamed Laid Khelifi "was an improvised act by three youths and has no connection" with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

Algiers - An Algerian regional governor who officials said was kidnapped and then freed in neighbouring Libya was handed over to the Algerian authorities on Wednesday, the speaker of Algeria's parliament said.

ALGERIA URGES TURKEY TO STOP TRYING TO MAKE POLITICAL CAPITAL OUT OF FRANCE'S KILLING OF THOUSANDS OF ALGERIANS Garibov Konstantin The Voice of Russia http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/17/64006072.html Jan 17 2012 The diplomatic row between Turkey and France has intensified with Turkey accusing France of committing "genocide" in Algeria in the 1940s ... (more)

GENOCIDE BILL: POLITICAL DEBATE WITH INTERNATIONAL REPERCUSSIONS PanARMENIAN.Net January 17, 2012 - 13:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Criminalizing the Genocide denial in France has touched off a political debate with international repercussions.

ALGIERS: Al-Qaeda's north African branch is holding the governor of an Algerian desert region kidnapped near the border with Libya, security sources said on Tuesday.

ALGIERS: Armed men kidnapped the governor of an Algerian desert region and took him in the direction of the nearby border with Libya, Algeria's state news agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Tuesday.

The California Courier Online, January 19, 2012 1- Commentary As France Tightens the Noose, Turkey Reactswith Outrageous Words and Deeds By Harut Sassounian Publisher, the California Courier 2 - ATPand AESA to Host Public Events in Southern California 3- Al Jazeera to Air `Grandma's Tattoos' 4- Soviet Spying Legend Gevork Vartanian Dies at 87 5- ... (more)