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4 people killed in plane crash at Algerian airport, state media report

August 05, 2025 11:43 pm

The incident occurred during a training mission at the airport, according to Algerian media citing civil protection authorities .

France, Algeria resume dialogue, but rocky path ahead

April 06, 2025 1:35 pm

Ties between Paris and Algiers have been complicated for decades, but took a turn for the worse last July when Macron angered Algeria by recognising a plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty.

France accuses Algeria of refusing deported influencer to 'humiliate' Paris

January 10, 2025 10:12 pm

The social media influencer was arrested in Montpellier for inciting violence through online videos.

Algeria court confirms Abdelmadjid Tebboune re-elected president with 84.30% of vote

September 14, 2024 9:04 pm

The campaign of rival candidate Abdelaali Hassani Cherif had previously alleged irregularities in the count.

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is re-elected in a landslide in gas-rich Algeria

September 09, 2024 2:06 am

Final figures showing low voter turnout, however, would mark a failure for the political establishment and a triumph for abstentionists as 4 out of 5 Algerian voters stayed home, according to Sunday's figures.

Algeria's 78-year-old president is expected to breeze to a second term in election

September 08, 2024 3:13 am

Tebboune's backers and challengers have all urged voters to come out to cast their ballots after boycotts and high abstention rates in previous elections marred the government's ability to claim popular support. 

Algerians honour victims of colonial-era French crackdown at Paris Olympics ceremony

July 27, 2024 3:30 pm

Kaci Yahia, an Algerian worker for the Paris sewage system, was among them. His body was never recovered.

Algeria inaugurates world's third biggest mosque

February 27, 2024 8:25 pm

The Great Mosque of Algiers is billed as the world's largest outside Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.

Algeria inaugurates Africa's largest mosque after years of political delays and cost overruns

February 26, 2024 1:32 pm

The state denied that in a news release Sunday posted on APS, the state news agency website. Throughout the delays and cost overruns, the project never stopped feeding Algerians’ anger, with many saying they’d rather have four hospitals built throughout the country.

Algeria sentences 49 to death for mob killing amid wildfires

November 26, 2022 7:14 am

The killing last year in the Kabylie region of northeast Algeria shocked the country, especially after graphic images of it were shared on social media.

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Algerian President abandons bid for 5th term amid mass protests

March 14, 2019 7:14 am

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced on Monday that he is delaying the April 18 election and won't seek another term

Meet Algeria's tattooed women

January 07, 2016 3:28 pm

In Algeria's Aures mountains, a Chaouia woman's beauty was once judged by her tattoos. But now, the fading etchings are a source of pain.

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