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AQIM has released a statement published on Islamist internet sites denying French claims that it had killed one of it's leaders.
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Stéphane Hessel, the former French resistance fighter, diplomat and political activist, often regarded as the inspiration for the Indignados movement, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, died in Paris on Tuesday at the age of 95.
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Investment in Algeria's oil and gas production is threatened by new security fears that add on to longer term issues scaring away foreign firms.
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On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the Obama administration would pursue AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) in North Africa, in an effort to ensure that the international terror network has no place to hide.
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In a newly released statement, the British Foreign Office has urged British nationals to leave Somalia, claiming to be aware of “a specific threat” to westerners in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
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Like volcanoes erupting a stream of lava, Islamic incidents, Jihads, appear as a human 'ring of fire' from Africa to the southern islands of the Philippines.
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Algiers -
Monday, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal announced that a Canadian citizen led the band of Islamist terrorists who slaughtered 37 international hostages, including two Canadians, at an Algerian desert gas plant last week.
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The international hostage crisis at the BP gas facility in Algeria appears to have come to a deadly conclusion, with Algerian officials finding additional bodies within the complex on Sunday.
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Algiers -
Robert Fisk claims that the Algerian military are ruthless in dealing with terrorists and worry little about collateral damage or creating a bloodbath as they seem to have done at the Amenas gas plant in Algeria.
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A United States Air Force aero evacuation plane has begun the process of evacuating Americans and other foreign nationals from the BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Bamako -
The Mali insurgency followed 10 years of US counter-terrorism programs. In spite of big goals to curb terrorism, and enhance regional cooperation and stability, Islamic groups were able to infiltrate Mali, threatening the existence of the democracy.
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Thursday was a day marked with confusion, concern, frustration and bloodshed as members of the Algerian military launched a rescue offensive on a BP gas complex in Amenas, Algeria.
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the mastermind of the attack on the gas plant in Algeria, is a veteran jihadist who fought in Afghanistan back in the early nineteen nineties. He lost sight in one eye in an explosives incident.
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Algerian security sources have told Reuters that 35 hostages being held at an oil field in Algeria have been killed. Fifteen kidnappers have also been killed, according to Al Jazeera.
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Islamic militants that attacked a BP gas facility in Algeria on Wednesday now claim to hold 41 foreign nationals hostage, including British, US, Norwegian, French and Japanese nationals.
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has responded to French intervention in Mali by staging an attack on a BP gas facility in Algeria. Early reports indicate three people were killed and at least six foreign workers abducted.
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Algiers -
Algeria's ambition to host the world's third largest mosque was realised on Sunday when work commenced on the foundations. When completed the North-African mosque will be the largest outside Saudi Arabia.
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CPJ, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is reporting that two freelance journalists of Algerian descent were shot and killed by Syrian security forces Monday in Darkoush, a town near the Turkish border. A third journalist was wounded.
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A relatively new branch of al-Qaeda has demanded a ransom of €30 million for the release of three European aid workers kidnapped from a refugee camp in Algeria on October 23.
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Geneva -
Originally meant to be built in Waxahachie, Texas, under the nickname of Desertron, Switzerland-France's CERN states it has seen "tantalizing hints" of the elusive Higgs boson, also called the "God particle," in two of their experiments.
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