TRIPOLI (AFP) - (AFP) - Moamer Kadhafi's wife and three children fled to Algeria on Monday, as rebels closed in on his hometown of Sirte and said the longtime strongman still posed a danger to Libya and the world.
Kadhafi himself and two other children -- sons Saadi and Seif al-Islam -- were in the town of Bani Walid, south of the capital Tripoli, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing "auth [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - (AFP) - Eighteen people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide bombing at a military academy in Algeria, the defence ministry said Saturday.
The ministry said 16 officers and two civilians were among the dead at the Cherchell military academy, west of Algiers. Twenty wounded had been discharged but six people were still in hospital, one in critical condition.
British Foreign S [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - (AFP) - Eighteen people were killed and 26 wounded in a suicide bombing at a military academy in Algeria, the defence ministry said Saturday.
The ministry said 16 officers and two civilians were among the dead at the Cherchell military academy, west of Algiers. Twenty wounded had been discharged but six people were still in hospital, one in critical condition.
British Foreign S [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - (AFP) - Algeria's paramilitary gendarmerie has dismantled a network dealing in stolen luxury cars that was operating via France and Tunisia, the local press reported Tuesday.
Police arrested five people and two others are on the run, according to the French-language daily Liberte.
At a first hearing, the detainees admitted to running a complicated network between Paris, Tunis a [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - (AFP) - A suicide bomb attack on a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday wounded more than 30 people, including two Chinese nationals, the French language daily El Watan reported online.
Mohamed Nedir, director of the university hospital in Tizi Ouzou, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the capital Algiers said eight policemen were among the injured.
A journalist [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - Algerian political leaders are preparing to start talks on democratic reforms on Saturday, but the opposition plans a no-show to protest what they call a feeble attempt at real change.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April pledged a number of reforms to be introduced before the end of the year including modifying the constitution and revising electoral law, as popu [...]
TUNIS (AFP) - Tunisia said Sunday it has arrested an Algerian and a Libyan in possession of explosives in the country's first arrests of suspected members of Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot.
The two men were detained in Nekrif, a town in the southern Tataouine region 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the Libyan border, officials said.
The Tunisian military has reinforced its presenc [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - About 2,500 Algerian auxiliary policemen gathered on Sunday to await President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's response to their demands for better pay and conditions issued at a huge rally a month ago.
The president's office had said it would announce its reply later on Sunday, a representative told the men in central Algiers, some of whom had arrived late Saturday.
About 3,000 s [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - Algerian youths seeking political change and a movement of unemployed people say they plan to hold separate demonstrations in Algiers late this week, stepping up protests against the authorities.
The two demonstrations will coincide with the 49th anniversary of a ceasefire that led to Algerian independence from France on April 19, and the government is marking the date wit [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - Libya has asked Algeria to mediate with the UN Security Council to obtain a lifting of sanctions against Tripoli, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci said Thursday in an newspaper interview.
The Security Council last month passed a resolution calling for an end to the violence in Libya, wracked by an uprising against Moamer Kadhafi's regime, and imposed severe sanctions on the [...]
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