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.

Egypt’s Oil Minster Sameh Fahmi said that a joint Egyptian-Algerian venture will be established for prospecting for oil and gas in the two states and that returns will be shared equally.

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) – A lawyer for six Guantanamo Bay prisoners told a European Parliament committee Wednesday his clients were taken from Bosnia on a U.S. plane that made stops in Turkey and elsewhere in Europe.