Algiers (Algeria)

* Bouteflika believed to be seriously ill * Energy wealth and scars of war will keep Algeria stable * Bouteflika last of old guard who fought for independence By Lamine Chikhi and Myra MacDonald ALGIERS, May 19 (Reuters) - Three weeks after being...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-...

Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...

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The high-ranking source, who asked not to be identified, also said Algeria, a U.S. ally in the campaign against al Qaeda, has evidence that Libyan militants it had handed over to Moammar Kadafi's government are now at large in Libya and some have joined...

Algerian riot police prevented protesters from gathering Saturday in May 1 Square in Algiers, the nation's capital, according to media reports. "Incredible tension on the streets. people standing around, police everywhere helicopters above. Feels like it'...

Algeria is now considered America's closest ally in the fight against Al Qaeda in North Africa, an unlikely partnership that emerged following years of strained relations, leaked US diplomatic cables obtained by Babylon & Beyond show. The documents show...

At least two people were reportedly killed and 420 injured in several days of rioting across Algeria sparked by dramatic hikes in food prices as well as persistent unemployment. One was a young man who was shot dead when "he......

Activists in Yemen, Jordan, Algeria and even Albania took to the streets this weekend demanding democratic reforms in their countries. Some expressed explicit support for the Tunisian people, calling for similar uprisings in their own countries. Others...

Algerian police cracked down on demonstrators at a banned Egypt-inspired anti-government march Saturday in the Algerian capital, clashing with protesters and arresting rally-goers, media reports said. A journalist with the Agence France Presse news agency...

Warren Christopher, the former secretary of State and eminence grise of the Democratic Party whose achievements in a wide-ranging public career include brokering the Bosnian peace agreement for the Clinton administration and leading an independent...

Gen. Marcel Bigeard, a decorated veteran who led France's elite parachute forces in colonial wars in independence-seeking Indochina and Algeria after serving in the French Resistance in World War II, died Friday in his hometown of Toul in eastern France....