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Algeria plays balancing act as Europe tries cut Russian gas

Algeria could help some nations switch off from Russian gas but the geopolitical backdrop is complex, say analysts.

Al Jazeera

Algeria Suspends Foreign Trade with Spain

Algeria said on Thursday it was suspending foreign trade in products and services with Spain as of June 9, Radio Algeria International reported, part of an escalating dispute over the status of Western Sahara. The move comes after the country suspended on Wednesday a 20-year-old friendship treaty with Spain that…

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Spain vows to defend its interests after Algeria halts all non-gas trade

Spain said it will firmly defend its national interests following Algeria's decision to suspend a 20-year-old treaty of friendship and cooperation and ban all non-gas trade, a move that also alarmed EU officials.

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Algeria suspends Spain cooperation over Western Sahara dispute

Algeria has suspended a 20-year-old cooperation treaty with Spain after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality on the Western Sahara conflict.

Radio France Internationale

Algeria Suspends Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Spain

Algeria has suspended its 20-year-old treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation with Spain, state media reported on Wednesday. No reason was given for the decision, which was taken by Algeria's top security council. But tensions are simmering between Algiers and Madrid over recent Spanish comments on Western Sahara as…

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Algeria suspends Spain co-operation treaty over Western Sahara dispute

Algeria said Wednesday it was suspending a decades-old co-operation treaty with Spain, after Madrid backed the position of the North African country's arch-rival Morocco on the disputed Western Sahara.

France 24

Algeria suspends treaty of friendship and cooperation with Spain -state media

Algeria has suspended its 20-year-old treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and cooperation with Spain, state media reported on Wednesday.

Reuters

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Brother of Algeria’s Bouteflika Jailed for 8 Years

The jailed brother of Algeria's late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika received an eight-year prison sentence on Monday for corruption, local media reported. Said Bouteflika's co-defendant, construction tycoon Ali Haddad who is also already in prison on other charges, was sentenced to four years, and both received fines. They had been charged…

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Celtic transfer news as Zinedine Ferhat live option re-emerges as Algerian's future shrouded in mystery

Reports in the playmaker's homeland claim he could be heading back there but it seems he hasn't made up his mind.

Daily Record

‘New Method to Read Historic Texts’…New Book by Palestinian Researcher Khaled Hussein Ayoub

Dar Kanaan Publishing, Damascus, released ‘New Method to Read Historic Texts’, a new book by Palestinian researcher Khaled Hussein Ayoub. “The book features historic texts from Italy, Cyprus, Turkey, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, dating back to the first millennium BC. It showcases the wrong grammar methods that researchers…

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Algerian dissidents: Victims of crackdown, or outlaws?

An Algerian military officer-turned-democracy activist has been deported from Spain and charged in Algeria in a case that human rights groups see as another sign of an ever-expanding crackdown on dissent

The Independent UK

Algerian President in Italy Discusses Energy, Renewed Clashes in Libya

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune discussed in Italy the European need for gas, the renewed clashes in Libya, illegal migration, the instability in the Sahel region, and the war on terrorism. Earlier, Tebboune announced that his country was determined to adopt the Italian experience to establish small and medium enterprises. The…

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US Slaps Sanctions on Hamas Official, Finance Network

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Hamas finance official and a network of financial facilitators and companies that have generated revenue for the Palestinian movement, the Treasury Department said. The sanctions target Hamas' Investment Office, which holds assets estimated to be worth more than $500 million, including…

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Cairo Hosts Int’l Conference on Confronting ‘Emerging Terrorist Organizations’

Egypt’s Interior Ministry, in collaboration with Interpol, is hosting Monday a workshop on confronting emerging terrorist organizations and phenomena in the Middle East and Africa. The workshop is hosted by the Egyptian Police Academy until May 25. The participating countries include Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,…

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Cannes Film-makers Urge France to Face Up to Colonial Past

Film-makers are holding up a mirror to France over its colonial past at the Cannes festival, helped by star power and a growing French readiness to face up to injustices committed notably in Africa. The colonization of Algeria and the horrors of the Algerian war of independence (1954-1962) deeply scarred…

France 24

Cannes war films delve into France’s painful colonial legacies

The Cannes Film Festival explored the devastating human cost of war and colonisation in Philippe Faucon’s Algerian War film “Les Harkis” and the Omar Sy-starring “Father and Soldier”, whose director Mathieu Vadepied sat down for an interview with FRANCE 24.

France 24

Cannes 2022: Algerian War of Independence depicted in 'Les Harkis'

We take a look at some of the independent features in the sidebar sections of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Olivia Salazar-Winspear tells us about Philippe Faucon’s "Les Harkis", which is screening in the Director's Fortnight selection. Set in 1959, it shines a light on the Algerian men who were…

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Algeria, Russia Discuss Military Cooperation

Algeria and Russia are considering developing their military cooperation and the joint military exercises scheduled for next November in the Algerian desert. Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev began a three-day visit to Algeria, where he met with Speaker of the Council Salah…

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Algerian Rapper Soolking Plays Harlem's Apollo during Debut US Tour

As his merengue-inflected single "Suavemente" once again topped France's songs chart, Algerian rapper Soolking was stateside, delighting fans and wooing new followers with his blend of rap and Maghrebian folk music. Already acclaimed in the Francophone world, the Algerian rapper Soolking this year set his sights on North America, where…

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Tebboune, Erdogan Discuss Libya Crisis, Bolstering Relations

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks in Ankara on Monday with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who had arrived on a three-day visit on Sunday. Discussions focused on bolstering bilateral relations, especially in the energy, trade, agriculture and tourism fields. They also tackled regional and international developments of interest,…

Reuters

Pope declares 10 new saints, including Dutch priest killed by Nazis

Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria.

Foreign Affairs

North Africa’s Frozen Conflict

How the Biden Administration Can Resolve the Dispute Over Western Sahara

Radio France Internationale

Police killing of French-Algerian student Oussekine remembered on screen, at last

Thirty five years after Malik Oussekine was beaten to death by police during a student demonstration, his story is finally being told in a four-part series beginning Wednesday on Disney+ and a feature film debuts at this month's Cannes Film Festival.

Reuters

Netherlands backs Morocco's Western Sahara autonomy plan- statement

The Netherlands views Morocco's plan for autonomy for Western Sahara as serious and credible, it said on Wednesday, moving closer to Rabat's stance on the disputed territory where the Algeria-backed Polisario Front seeks an independent state.

The Independent UK

Russia's FM Lavrov meets Algeria leader to deepen thick ties

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with the president of Algeria and marked 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries

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