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3 hrs ago | Times of Oman

His Majesty greets Algeria and Venezuela

MUSCAT a ' His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has congratulated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela on their countriesa TM Independence anniversary.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Hugo Chavez

Thu Jul 02, 2009

ABS-CBN News

Algeria to host mega pan-African festival

More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this weekend until July 20.

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Related Topix: Africa, Dance,

Pan-African News Wire

Algeria Set For Second Pan-African Cultural Festival After Four Decades

All set for Pan-African Festival By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Zimbabwean artists will join a host of others from the continent at the second Pan-African Festival of Algiers from July 5 to 20.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Wed Jul 01, 2009

ABC News

Algiers Attack on U.N. Signals Wider Threat

The twin blasts that caused such devastation in Algeria this week were a grim announcement that an Islamic group once thought to have been defeated is back and is now poised to extend its murderous tactics throughout North Africa and possibly to Europe.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa

Tue Jun 30, 2009

PR-inside.com

Poyry Awarded Rubber Tube Dam Assignment in Algeria

The project covers derivation of the Sebgag River in the province of Laghouat and is built for the National Irrigation and Drainage Authority .

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

This Is London

More muddle than Medea

It's a crash, bang, wallop of a movie with nothing to suggest anything but technical skill has gone into it Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Restaurants Rachel Cooke To eat at Palm is to experience time travel Palm Henry Hitchings The story is paper-thin, and the acting a little uneven but the vocal performances make the production fly Been So ...

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Related Topix: World News

Fri Jun 26, 2009

FOX6Now.com - WITI

Fleeing conflict from their country, Somalis create largest refugee camp in world

The bloody conflict in Somalia has created the world's largest refugee camp, with 500 hungry and exhausted refugees pouring into this wind-swept camp in neighboring Kenya every day, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

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Related Topix: Somalia, Africa, World News

Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Daily Star

Musical celebration on Beirut's streets for the shortest night of the year

BEIRUT: Like the summer solstice that it marks, Fete de la Musique, the night-long musical celebration of the year's briefest night, returns to Beirut streets this Sunday for its ninth round of Franco-Arab vibrations.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Lebanon, Israel

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Independent Online

'Time to end the violence'

By Lamine Chikhi Algiers - Support is building among Algeria's ruling elite for a plan to offer a new amnesty to al-Qaeda militants if they abandon violence that in the past few weeks has killed tens of people including a British hostage.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Little Green Footballs

A Successful Election in Morocco

While the world's attention is focused on the fallout from Iran's election, an election in another Muslim country gave reason for hope: A Muslim Nation's Successful Election .

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Related Topix: World News, Morocco, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Africa

Fri Jun 19, 2009

CNW Group

SNC-Lavalin awarded contract for major Algerian gas processing complex

MONTREAL, June 16, 2009 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that it has been awarded an engineering procurement and construction contract by Sonatrach, Algeria's national oil company to design and build natural gas process facilities in the Sahara desert approximately 1200 km to the south east of Algiers.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Hindustan Times

At least 18 killed in Algeria ambush: sources

Islamist rebels ambushed a military convoy in Algeria and killed at least 18 police, local sources told AFP on Thursday.

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Related Topix: World News

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Business World

Petroceltic finds Algerian gas deposits

Tuesday, June 16 12:02:25 Irish prospector, Petroceltic, today said it has completed drilling on its Algerian INE-2 well and found gas-bearing deposits.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Mon Jun 15, 2009

The Winnipeg Free Press

SNC-Lavalin wins US$1.1 billion contract to build Algerian natural gas facility

Engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a US$1.1-billion contract to build a natural gas processing facility for Algeria's national oil company.

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Related Topix: World News, Travel

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Constantine: 'Far-right' Hutchison chickens out of honest debate

If there was any doubt that Susan Hutchison is the front runner in the King County Executive's race Dow Constantine removed it Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World News, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mike Huckabee

Thu Jun 11, 2009

The Independent

INTERVIEW / Talking to the shah of Oran: The Algerian rai star Khaled ...

The last time I saw Khaled, three years ago, he was ending his highly successful British debut concert at the Empire Leicester Square, grinning his great, fun-packed grin as a succession of young London Algerians clambered on to the stage and ran to be photographed draping their belts or scarves around his neck or clutching him around the ...

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Related Topix: Khaled, Folk, World News, Wedding

Wed Jun 10, 2009

The Arabist

The Democratic Popular Kingdom of Algeria

The Democratic Popular Kingdom of Algeria On the announcement that Said Bouteflika, brother of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is launching a political party.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Tue Jun 09, 2009

The Star Online

Obama wants "immediate" Mideast talks - Mitchell

U.S. President Barack Obama wants "immediate" talks between the Palestinians and Israel to forge a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement, U.S. envoy George Mitchell said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Africa

Sun Jun 07, 2009

The Boston Globe

Diplomacy with a jazzy beat

Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band.

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Related Topix: World News, Music, Entertainment

Fri Jun 05, 2009

BBC

Profile: Al-Qaeda in North Africa

Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, to give its full name in English, has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the early 1990s, but has since evolved to take on a more modern Islamist agenda.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Osama bin Laden, Tunisia,

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