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Algeria finds dead Canadian militants as siege toll rises

Algerian special forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source said on Monday, as the death toll reached at least 80 after troops stormed the complex to end the hostage crisis.

Is an Arab Spring in the air for Algeria?

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When Moncef Marzouki, a former dissident transformed by the 'Arab Spring' into Tunisia's president, paid an official visit to Algeria on Sunday, red and white Tunisian flags flew from lamp-posts in hi

Algeria sentences fugitive Qaeda chief to death

A court in Algeria has sentenced a fugitve leader of Al-Qaeda's North African wing and three of his followers to death for attacks against the military.

The sentence against Mokhtar Belmokhtar and th

Muammar Gaddafi says he will not surrender

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Fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed again on Thursday not to surrender, in a message broadcast on the 42nd anniversary of the coup, which brought him to power.

In the message put out by the

Gaddafi wife, three children flee to Algeria

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Muammar Gaddafi's wife and three children fled to Algeria on Monday as rebels closed in on his hometown of Sirte and said the strongman still posed a danger to Libya and the world.

Gaddafi himself an

Recap of Afro-ME uprise

Cairo: Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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- Residents in the Libyan oil town of Ras Lanuf, the front line in a rebel uprising against ruler Moamer Gad

Recap of Arab uprise

Cairo: Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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- A fresh air strike targeted the rebel-held Libyan town of Brega, residents said, one day after clashes bet

Recap of developments in Middle East, North Africa

Cairo: Latest developments in the unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa.

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- Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi insisted his people loved him but was slammed as 'delusional' as Western nati

Demonstrators gather for pro-democracy marches in Algeria

Algeria: Security was tight in Algeria's capital Algiers on Saturday as demonstrators gathered for a pro-democracy march, a day after protesters in Egypt forced out their longtime President Hosni Muba

Algerian women suicide bombers targeting Europe?

European airports and other transport hubs are on 'high alert' amid fears of a spate of attacks by Algerian female suicide bombers, Israeli intelligence website Debka has reported, citing counter terr

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