April, 2006

• 27 April

  تحذيرات من محاولات إسرائيلية للإتصال باللاجئين الفلسطينيين ومساومتهم على حق العودة

  غزة-دنيا الوطن حذر الدكتور عاطف عدوان، وزير شؤون اللاجئين، من وجود محاولات إسرائيلية حثيثة للإتصال باللاجئين الفلسطينيين المقيمين في دول عربية وأجنبية لمساومتهم على حق العودة. وقال الوزير عدوان في بيان صحافي أصدرته الدائرة الإعلامية بالوزارة، أمس، إن معلومات وصلت إلى الوزارة، من بعض الجهات والشخصيات في الخارج، تفيد بوجود …

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• 27 April

  Paris metro bomber gets ten years in jail

  Ramda found guilty of helping prepare 1995 bombings on Paris’s metro system which left eight dead, 200 injured. PARIS – An Algerian man was given a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail by a French court Wednesday for helping prepare bombings on the Paris metro system in 1995 which …

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• 27 April

  Algerian Islamic extremists kill ten in ambush

  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.

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• 27 April

  Egypt -Algeria oil and gas cooperation

  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.

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• 27 April

  Lawyer says plane from Germany transferred Algerian suspects to Guantanamo

  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.

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• 27 April

  Algerian terror suspects want to go home

  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 …

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• 27 April

  Quake rocks eastern Algeria

  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.

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• 27 April

  First Calgary finds new oil at Algerian site

  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.

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• 26 April

  IRAN DETERMINED TO CONTINUE NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES

  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.

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• 26 April

  FOUR CANADIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN

  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.

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