Algeria

Six individuals stand in formal attire inside an elegant room with a large painting and ornate decor.
Israel and Lebanon meet for direct talks for the first time in over 30 years
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A vinyl reissue from ‘The Algerian Rose’
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France expels 12 Algerian officials in tit-for-tat move amid diplomatic tensions
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Polarizing French Algerian author wins France’s most-coveted literary award
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Frantz Fanon sitting at a table during a press conference
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A film screening at the FiSahara 2022 film festival
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Film festival at refugee camp near Western Sahara amplifies voices of displaced people
The Krechba gas plant in Algeria's Sahara Desert, about 720 miles south of the capital, Algiers, Dec. 14, 2008.
Borders
Spain and Algeria at odds over Western Sahara, energy and migration
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
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G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
A group of men are shown carrying a casket on their shoulders drapped with a blanket.
Top of The World
ISIS claims killing of 3 women media workers in Afghanistan
French President Emmanuel Macron is shown standing next to French historian Benjamin Stora, both men wearing dark jackets and Macron holding a white paper.
Conflict & Justice
Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
A man wearing a blue shirt leans his body over a coffin draped with the Algerian flag in a room full of coffins.
History
French report reignites debate about colonialism in Algeria
Flags of many countries carried by protesters fill the frame.
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Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a rally calling for the former ruling party to be dissolved and for ex-officials to be put on trial in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 21, 2019.
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Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest to reject the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria, Dec. 12, 2019.
Global Politics
Algerians protesting elections want real reform, not a military junta, analyst says
Seven men in different military uniforms walk next to military vehicles.
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celebration in algeria
Global Politics
Algeria’s president resigns amid protests
A protester holds up a sign in Arabic writing.
Global Politics
Young Algerians have only known one president. Many are hopeful that will soon change.
Many young men holding Algerian flags scale a monument of a woman holding a torch, attached to which is a flag
Global Politics
Algeria’s ailing president was once a revolutionary. After mass protests, he won’t seek a fifth term.
french soccer players at the world cup
Sports
French national soccer players of immigrant ancestry face harsher critics at the World Cup
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Protesters gather to rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. May 10, 2017.
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Donald Trump, at a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Oct. 26, and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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One former soldier recalled the sight of livestock wandering around abandoned villages. Their owners had fled and left them behind. Sofiane Zouggar made these haunting images.
Arts
Algerian artists are ‘exposing the scars’ of the country’s recent civil war
Algeran artists exchange ideas at BOX 24, an artist collective in Algiers.
Arts
Algeria’s contemporary artists strive to make their own space
Global Scan
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An Algerian soccer fan waves the Algerian flag in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. With 16 French-born players on the Algerian team, Franco-Algerians have celebrated the Algerian victories with huge celebrations in French cities.
Sports
At the World Cup, there are more French-born players playing against France than for it
An Algerian soccer fan waves the Algerian flag in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. With 16 French-born players on the Algerian team, Franco-Algerians have celebrated the Algerian victories with huge celebrations in French cities.
Sports
At the World Cup, there are more French-born players playing against France than for it
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The Yusuf Mosque is in a former VFW building in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Congregants are an incredible mix of Muslims from a host of different countries.
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United States' Landon Donovan reacts after his team conceded a goal in extra time during the 2010 World Cup second round match against Ghana at Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg June 26, 2010.
Sports
The US World Cup team is announced, with one star noticeably absent
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his ballot during the presidential election in Algiers April 17, 2014. Algerians voted on Thursday in the election Bouteflika is expected to win after 15 years in power.
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Algeria’s presidential election is less revolution and more ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’
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Chicago police move in to knock down a burning cross in front of a home, after an African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood, August 3, 1963. The civil rights movement in America was one of the historic trends transforming the
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Albert Camus in 1957.
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What Albert Camus can teach us about nation-building
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Militants in Mali take hostages in Algeria
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Harkis still waiting for French apology 50 years after Algerian War
Business, Economics and Jobs
Homelessness a growing problem in Greece
Syrian officials reject call to stand aside as country veers toward civil war
Lifestyle & Belief
Elkader: An Iowa town named after an Algerian, Muslim jihadist
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Fugitive George Wright captured after 41 years
Arts, Culture & Media
Punk rock in North African music
Libyan rebels take Tripoli, capturing Gadhafi’s sons
Lifestyle & Belief
Canadians Involved in Algerian Al-Qaeda Attack
Conflict & Justice
Why Algerians Shudder at the Mention of ‘Arab Spring’
Conflict & Justice
Algeria Gas Facility Attack May Have Been an Inside Job
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Working the Oil Fields of Africa
Lifestyle & Belief
Algerian Militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, ‘Mr. Marlboro,’ Jihadist or Thug?
Unpacking the History of the French-Algerian Conflict
Conflict & Justice
Military Operation Ends at Algerian Gas Facility with Uncertain Outcome
Algeria Military Operation ‘Over’
Lifestyle & Belief
Islamist Militants Take Hostages in Algeria Natural Gas Facility
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