Algeria News

Our citizens work hard, but solely with the object of getting rich. Their chief interest is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it "doing business". --Narrator describing Oran in opening pages of The Plague , by Albert Camus

CAIRO [MENL] -- Algeria's loyalist tribes have demanded protection from attacks by Al Qaida.

More than 25,000 Chinese work on huge housing projects and cross-country highways in Algeria, but few have any deep contacts with the local population.

To be constructed by Befesa, the plant will produce 200,000 m 3 of water per day.

HE the Deputy Premier, Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah holding talks with the outgoing Turkish Ambassador to Qatar Mithat Rende on the occasion of the expiry of his tour of duty.

According to the Times of Malta , the Arctic Sea has been released to its Finnish owners.

ALGIERS: Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement on Tuesday threatened to pull out of negotiations with Morocco unless seven detained activists were freed, its Algiers representative said.

Algiers: An armed Islamist group yesterday killed at least six private security guards in an ambush in the Kabylie region east of the capital, residents said.

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The clashes between police and young people protesting poor housing conditions in Algiers earlier this week reflect growing efforts in recent weeks to stem public demonstrations by a government which, fearing terrorist threats, is determined to maintain a grip on order.

Algerian riot poilcemen take cover as protesters throw stones during clashes at Diar Eshams suburb on Tuesday.

ALGIERS: Clashes that pitted police against stone-throwing youths from an Algiers slum this week are characteristic of the confrontations that take place in Algeria over poor living conditions.

Algiers/Paris - Seven security guards were killed early Thursday by a group of suspected Islamic extremists near the eastern city of Tizi Ouzou, local security sources said.

CAIRO [MENL] -- Algeria has approved plans for a major energy development project.

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HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika holding talks in Algiers yesterday Algiers: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani held a round of official talks with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, at the Villa Zeralda Complex here yesterday.

Algeria's ministry of public works on Tuesday put out to national and international tender a feasibility study on a road link between the south-western town of Tindouf and Choum in north Mauritania.

A French court placed a physicist working at CERN , the high-energy research laboratory in Switzerland, under formal investigation on Monday for suspected "conspiracy with a terrorist enterprise." Although the physicist's name had not been officially released by the French police, an official with direct knowledge of the investigation identified ...

As AdlA ne Hicheur is investigated for terrorist links, his brother speaks out. Geoff Brumfiel The LHCb experiment might help explain the imbalance of matter and antimatter.

The Battle of Algiers Opening Oct. 15 Drama. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. While incarcerated in a French goal in 1954, Ali la Pointe witnesses the execution of an Algerian patriot.