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.

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 …

Algiers – A quake measuring 4,2 on the open-ended Richter scale shook the Ain Smara region on Wednesday near Constantine, 430km east of Algiers, the Algerian centre for geophysical research said.

CALGARY — First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. said Wednesday it has discovered a new oil pool in the Tagi zone of its prospective offshore Block 405b in Algeria.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi said on 23 April in his weekly press conference in Tehran that the Islamic Republic will not reverse course on uranium enrichment or its other nuclear activities, Radio Farda and state television reported. “We are determined not to forfeit our rights,” he said.

An explosive device hit a Canadian patrol vehicle in Shah Wali Kot District of Kandahar Province on April 22 killing four soldiers, international news agencies reported. According to a Canadian military spokesman the explosion was detonated by a technically advanced remote-controlled device, “The New York Times,” reported on April 23.

The first of the four S-300 surface-to-air missile systems that Russia has contracted to supply to Belarus arrived in Minsk on April 21, Belapan reported, quoting Belarusian Defense Minister Leanid Maltsau. Maltsau added that the remaining three system will be delivered until the end of this year.

Robert Simmons, special representative of NATO Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer for the South Caucasus and Central Asia, said in the course of a NATO delegation’s visit to Kazakhstan on April 22 that it is “important for us that Kazakhstan has advanced and signed the Individual Partnership Action Plan with …

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told the Minsk-based daily “Sovetskaya Belorussiya” of April 20 that “in the event of a clear violation of the balance of forces near our borders [by NATO], we reserve the lawful right to take all necessary measures to ensure the [soundness] of our national security,” Interfax …