Islamic World News

Chavez sees promising energy deals with Algeria

Venezuelan leader, Algerian counterpart sign economic and political accords, discuss international issues. ALGIERS – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday hailed as “very promising” the prospect of economic and energy cooperation with Algeria after meeting here with the country’s leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

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Paris metro bomber gets ten years in jail

Ramda found guilty of helping prepare 1995 bombings on Paris’s metro system which left eight dead, 200 injured. PARIS – An Algerian man was given a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail by a French court Wednesday for helping prepare bombings on the Paris metro system in 1995 which …

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Algerian Islamic extremists kill ten in ambush

Bus carrying communal guard members ambushed by Algerian Islamic extremists near near El-Kassa. ALGIERS – Ten people, nine of them members of a local security force, were killed in Algeria Sunday in an ambush by Islamic extremists, several independent newspapers reported.

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Algerian terror suspects want to go home

Four Algerians detained for up to four years without charge or trial as terrorist suspects say they will return home to face torture because they can no longer face the “cruelty” Britain has inflicted on them. In a letter to the Guardian, the four men, who are held in Long …

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