Algeria

Yesterday, Monday, the Spanish "high seas" cruise "EPSP TORNADO-P44" of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization docked in the port of Algiers, in a three-day stop. The Algerian Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that the visit…
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The Cannes Film Festival announced this week that Algerian director Mounia Meddour will be part of the Un Certain Regard jury at the 74th edition of the event set to take place from July 6-17. The other jury members are UK director…
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Algeria cancelled the accreditation of France 24, the communications ministry said Sunday, a day after parliamentary elections in the former French colony. The move was due to the satellite news channel's "clear and repeated hostility…
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Algeria on Sunday awaited the results of a parliamentary election boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and marked by widespread abstention. Turnout was just 30.2 percent, electoral commission chief Mohamed Chorfi…
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A politician and a journalist who are prominent opposition figures in Algeria have been arrested days ahead of the country’s parliamentary election, according to a group of lawyers defending jailed activists of the pro-democracy movement.…
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French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim is set to star in “She Came to Me,” a romantic comedy written by screenwriter and director Rebecca Miller. Rahim, who gained international prominence for his critically-acclaimed role in “The…
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The friendly confrontation of the Algerian team against its Mauritanian guest, in which the desert warriors swept the match 4-1 on Thursday, witnessed the solidarity of the "Greens" with the Palestinian cause. The players of the Algerian…
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Algeria on Saturday honored thousands killed by French forces in 1945, as the North African country waits for Paris to apologize for its colonial era crimes. Pro-independence protests broke out after a rally on May 8, 1945 marking the…
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Today, Sunday, the American embassy in Algeria issued an urgent warning to citizens against exposure to fraud that could be thrown into its name. Khaled Wolfsburg, a spokesman for the US embassy, presented a representative scene in which…
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Fench President Emmanuel Macron wants to take further steps to reckon with France’s colonial-era wrongs in Algeria but is not considering an official apology, his office said. A report commissioned by Macron, to be published later…
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