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Greece battles wildfires as at least 15 people killed in Algeria fires
We find ourselves at war with fire, the Greek prime minister declared today – as the hottest summer on record turns his country’s hillsides into a tinderbox.
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‘People feel like the police are constantly attacking them’, says French-Algerian journalist Melissa Cheman
We’re joined by Melissa Chemam, a French-Algerian journalist who lives on the outskirts of Nanterre.
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Algeria fires: Dozens killed as wildfires hit Mediterranean region
At least 65 people have been killed by forest fires raging through northern Algeria. The fires have been burning east of the capital, Algiers, in the Kabyle region.
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Clashes as Algeria holds disputed elections
Protesters have poured on to the streets of the Algerian capital to demonstrate against what they say is a “sham” presidential election. Riot police blocked streets in Algiers as protesters called for sweeping political reforms. Abdelaziz Bouteflika was toppled earlier this year after two decades in power in Africa’s largest country. Protesters are unhappy that…
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Algerian president reportedly home amid mass protests
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika left his hospital bed in Geneva this afternoon to fly back to Algiers.
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Hundreds dead in Algeria plane crash
Some 257 people have died after an Algerian military jet carrying soldiers and their families crashed shortly after take-off early this morning. The Soviet-designed transport jet had just left a military base in northern Algeria when it crashed into a field, killing 247 passengers and 10 crew.
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France and Algeria: a long and bloody embrace
The fact that Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo attack, are of Algerian descent may have disturbing resonances of earlier conflicts in the north African country.
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Cameron heads to Algeria to discuss terror threats
David Cameron is travelling to Algeria to step up efforts to tackle the growing terrorist threat in northern Africa after a BP oil plant was seized by Islamist militants and six British hostages died.
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BP ‘fears worst’ for four missing staff in Algeria
Work continues today to identify the British victims of the Algerian siege and to repatriate their bodies as BP confirm 14 of their 18 staff are now safe.
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Algeria hostage taking: new footage emerges
New footage emerges of the bloody aftermath of the hostage taking at an Algerian natural gas facility, in which nearly 40 hostages were killed. Paraic O’Brien reports.
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Algeria: 37 foreign hostages dead
David Cameron condemns the “brutal and savage” actions of Islamist militants in Algeria, as the Algerian prime minister says 37 foreign hostages were killed in the gas plant siege.
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Three Britons confirmed dead in Algeria
Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that three British nationals have been killed in the Algerian hostage crisis and that a further three, along with a British resident, are missing and feared dead.
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Algeria crisis prompts fears for heightened terror in Mali
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Nioni, Mali, on the fear that the Algerian hostage crisis marks a new level of terror which could sweep Mali.
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Algeria hostage crisis UK’s ‘top priority’
The Algerian hostage crisis will remain the government’s “top priority” until every British national at the BP gas plant is accounted for, vows Foreign Secretary William Hague.
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British hostages feared dead after final Algerian assault
Five British nationals and one UK resident are dead or unaccounted for, Foreign Secretary William Hague said, after Algerian special forces launched a final assault on the besieged BP gas plant.
