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Rory Sullivan

Algeria orders 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 40 hours

​​Algeria has ordered 12 French embassy officials to leave the country within 48 hours, France's foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed on Monday.

The decision to expel the officials comes just days after prosecutors in France indicted three Algerians, including a consular official, on suspicion of kidnapping the Algerian influencer Amir Boukhors last year.

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