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Anger in Algeria after 19-year-old girl raped and set alight

06 Oct 2020

The rape and murder of a young woman has sparked anger in Algeria, with women's rights activists demanding to know why she was not better protected after her mother said...

BOJ funds banks to save from its negative interest rate policy

13 Aug 2020

As the Bank of Japan (BOJ) tries to pump more funds to companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic, it is offering banks hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, a...

Gold hits record above $2,000/oz on soft dollar, stimulus bets

05 Aug 2020

Gold scaled an all-time peak on Wednesday, after topping the $2,000 mark in the previous session, spurred on by a weaker dollar, falling U.S. Treasury yields and expectations of more...

Cardi B urges followers to vote out Trump: ‘We can all win together’

04 Jun 2020

Cardi B appealed to her fans to vote out Donald Trump in the upcoming 3 November US election. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper posted a series of tweets from...

Thousands mourn Algerian army chief Ahmed Gaed Salah

25 Dec 2019

Thousands of Algerians gathered on Wednesday for the funeral procession of the country's powerful army chief, who fought for independence from France as a young man and this year became...

Ex-PM Tebboune wins Algeria presidential election

13 Dec 2019

Former prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria's widely unpopular presidential election without the need for a second-round runoff, the electoral commission said on Friday. Tebboune, 74, took 58.15 per...

VIDEO: Protests, polling station attack mar Algeria presidential election

12 Dec 2019

Thousands of people took to the streets in central Algiers on Thursday chanting "No vote! We want freedom!" as the authorities held a presidential election that a mass protest movement...

Algerian protesters demand election must be cancelled

11 Dec 2019

A big crowd of protesters marched through central Algiers on Wednesday to demand that a presidential election planned for Thursday be cancelled, chanting that they would not vote in a...

Two Algeria ex-PMs get jail terms in graft case

10 Dec 2019

An Algerian court sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms on Tuesday in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

Algeria prosecutor seeks heavy sentences against ex-premiers

09 Dec 2019

The Algerian prosecutor’s office Sunday requested 20-year prison sentences for several former politicians accused of corruption, including two prime ministers who served under ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, local media reported. ...

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