News: Algeria

We have started to collect the most important news related to Algeria in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Algeria: news

Algerian army moves to end siege

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 19:29
related countries: United Kingdom

A number of people are killed in an Algerian military raid to free hostages at a desert gas plant, as at least four foreign hostages are freed, state media report.
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UK hostages 'freed' in Algeria

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 18:27
related countries: United Kingdom

A Northern Irish man is free reportedly along with two Scots after being held captive by militants at an Algerian gas facility.
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Hostages 'escape Algeria captors'

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 12:51

A number of hostages, both Algerian and foreign, escape Islamist militants who took them captive in eastern Algeria, media and officials say.
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Algeria troops besiege kidnappers

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 11:19

Security forces in eastern Algeria surround a gas facility occupied by militants holding foreign and Algerian workers, amid reports 30 Algerians have escaped.
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Hague condemns Algeria killing

Thursday, January 17th 2013, 10:35

Foreign Secretary William Hague condemns the killing of a Briton by Islamist militants in Algeria as "cold-blooded murder".
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Foreign workers seized in Algeria

Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 22:11

Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a gas facility in Algeria, killing two people, one of them British, and seizing some 20 foreign workers.
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France notes Algerian suffering

Thursday, December 20th 2012, 10:37
related countries: France

President Francois Hollande acknowledges the brutality of France's colonisation of Algeria, but does not apologise.
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VIDEO: Postcards from the Arab uprisings 4

Thursday, December 13th 2012, 0:40
related countries: Egypt

In the fourth of a series of video postcards, people from Egypt, Yemen and Algeria talk about why they think the Arab uprisings have been important.
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VIDEO: Postcards from the Arab uprising

Monday, December 10th 2012, 0:08
related countries: Lebanon

Two years on from the start of the Arab uprising, people in Lebanon, Jordan and Algeria talk about how the events have changed their countries.
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Mali focus for Clinton in Algeria

Monday, October 29th 2012, 13:51
related countries: Mali, United States
related places: Clinton

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visits Algeria to discuss the growing threat posed by militant Islamists in neighbouring Mali, US officials say.
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Algerian troops kill key Islamist

Monday, October 15th 2012, 18:18
related places: Tizi Ouzou

Boualem Bekai, a key al-Qaeda militant in North Africa, has died in an army ambush near the northern city of Tizi Ouzou, Algerian officials say.
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Moving a nun's body across Algeria

Friday, October 12th 2012, 0:01

The trial of moving a dead nun across Algeria
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Algerian ex-president dies at 83

Saturday, October 6th 2012, 19:50

Algerian former President Chadli Bendjedid dies of cancer at the age of 83, state-run media report.
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Algeria diplomat 'killed in Mali'

Sunday, September 2nd 2012, 15:40
related countries: Mali

An Islamist militant group in Mali says it executed one of Algerian diplomats seized in April.
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Brahimi welcomed as Syria envoy

Saturday, August 18th 2012, 12:23
related countries: Russia, Syria, United States
related places: Damascus

The US, Russia, Syria and others welcome the appointment of veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi as the new international envoy to Damascus.
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Brahimi named new UN Syria envoy

Saturday, August 18th 2012, 4:51
related countries: Syria

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi takes over from Kofi Annan as the new international envoy for Syria, as fighting continued to rage in the main cities.
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Algerian 'to be UN Syria envoy'

Friday, August 10th 2012, 0:27
related countries: Syria

Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to be named the new UN envoy for Syria, diplomats say, a week after the resignation of Kofi Annan.
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Makhloufi wins men's 1500m gold

Tuesday, August 7th 2012, 20:54

Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi wins the 1500m to secure the first Olympic gold medal of his career.
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Algerian thrown out of Olympics

Monday, August 6th 2012, 13:03

Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi becomes the ninth athlete to be excluded from London's Olympic Games for not trying.
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Spain evacuates Algeria aid staff

Saturday, July 28th 2012, 22:07
related countries: Spain
related places: Tindouf

Spain is evacuating all its aid workers and three other foreign nationals from refugee camps in Tindouf, western Algeria, due to "growing insecurity" in neighbouring Mali.
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