20100719
Reuters

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian prosecutors denied a local newspaper report on Monday that the son of a government minister allied to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had been placed under criminal investigation.

20100620
allafrica

Cape Town — Algeria kept themselves in with a sniff of a place in the knockout stages of the World Cup with a draw against the might of England at the Green Point Stadium on Friday, but must beat the Americans on June 23 to stand any chance of progress.

201006018
allafrica

Chinese companies are caught in the political crossfire between President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his opponents in the military and intelligence services led by General Mohammed 'Tewfik' Mediene.

20100619
allafrica

Algeria pulled off an upset draw with England in Cape Town on Friday, holding one of the World Cup favourites to a goalless tie at the Green Point Stadium.

20100612
allafrica

If Algeria are to have any chance of getting out of their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group C, they need a positive start in their opening encounter against Slovenia in Polokwane on Sunday.

20100612
africanews

Algerian paramilitary police barracks has been hit by an explosion killing at least four people, including two police officers, a security source said on Friday. "We have at least four people killed and among them two gendarmes (paramilitary police)," said the security source, who did not want to be identified.

20100610
Afrol

The Algiers parliament has approved a bill to spend an extraordinary 100 billion Dinars (US$ 1.48 billion) on science over five years. Algeria now hopes to reverse the "brain drain".

20100608
afrol

Algeria is dissatisfied with its relations with the European Union (EU), claiming these only secure EU gas imports and EU consumer goods exports. But a deepening of ties is now being prepared.

20100608
Reuters

A former CIA station chief in Algeria pleaded guilty on Monday to sex abuse stemming from a 2008 incident in Algiers and to cocaine use, the U.S. Justice Department said.

20100529

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil has been removed from his post and replaced by former energy official and diplomat Youcef Yousfi in the biggest upheaval in the OPEC member's energy industry in a decade.