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.

World news related to Algeria – overview

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• November 24th 2009 – November 16th 2009
• November 13th 2009 – July 3rd 2009
• July 3rd 2009 – February 24th 2009
• February 23rd 2009 – October 2nd 2008
• September 29th 2008 – June 18th 2008
• June 9th 2008 – January 17th 2008
• January 2nd 2008 – October 2nd 2007
• September 21st 2007 – June 2nd 2007
• May 18th 2007 – March 22nd 2007
• February 13th 2007 – October 15th 2006
• October 13th 2006 – March 21st 2006
• March 18th 2006 – November 17th 2005

Algeria: news

Battle of Algiers director dies

Friday, October 13th 2006, 5:14
related countries: Italy
related places: Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo, the Italian director of the groundbreaking film The Battle Of Algiers, died at the age of 86.
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Italy police 'break terror cell'

Monday, October 2nd 2006, 15:34
related countries: Italy

Italian police say they have broken up a fundamentalist Islamic group providing support for militants in Algeria.
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African explorer's body exhumed

Saturday, September 30th 2006, 18:04
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, France
related places: Pierre

The remains of Pierre de Brazza, 19th century French explorer and founder of modern day Congo, are exhumed in Algeria.
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Algeria amnesty deadline expiring

Monday, August 28th 2006, 11:26

A six-month amnesty offered by Algeria to Islamic militants on condition of surrender expires on Monday.
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Former settlers return to Algeria

Saturday, July 29th 2006, 11:00
related countries: France

An extraordinary reconciliation between Algeria and former French settlers is taking place despite their blighted past, John Laurenson reports.
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Study reveals 'oldest jewellery'

Thursday, June 22nd 2006, 20:24
related countries: Israel

The earliest known pieces of jewellery made by modern humans are identified by scientists in Israel and Algeria.
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Algeria leader in French hospital

Thursday, April 20th 2006, 10:52
related countries: France

Algeria's President Bouteflika has gone back to France for a medical check-up after surgery late last year.
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Algerian gunmen kill 13 in ambush

Saturday, April 8th 2006, 1:03

Thirteen Algerian customs officials are killed and eight injured in an ambush in the south of the country.
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Paris bomber jailed for 10 years

Wednesday, March 29th 2006, 12:56
related countries: France

An Algerian man is jailed for 10 years over the 1995 Paris Metro bombings which killed eight people.
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Algeria earthquake 'kills four'

Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 1:43

An earthquake measuring 5.0 kills four and leaves 36 injured in eastern Algeria, reports say.
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