Algiers

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  11 Killed In Algerian Orphanage Fire Amid Severe Heatwave

  Firefighters had to use a chainsaw to remove metal bars from a window, say witnesses.

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  Sotheby's Auctions Off Billionaire's Art Collection

  Sotheby's kicked off New York auction season today by selling $377 worth of art amassed by self-made billionaire Alfred Taubman in a slightly lackluster night that fell short of top estimates.

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  Mali's Tuareg Rebels Prepare to Sign Landmark Peace Deal

  Mali's Tuareg-led rebel alliance prepared today to sign a landmark deal to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist insurgency.

• Mali Rebels Meet in Algiers to Discuss Rejected Peace Deal

  Tuareg-led rebels from north Mali said on Thursday they are meeting with Algerian mediators in Algiers to discuss the terms of preliminary peace deal they rejected last month.

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  Algerian Novelist and Women's Rights Defender Assia Djebar Dead

  Novelist Assia Djebar, an ardent defender of women's rights in her native Algeria, has died aged 78, state radio said today.

• Algeria Army Destroys Kidnap Camp, Kills Four Militants

  Four gunmen were killed after the Algerian army raided the suspected hideout of the kidnappers of Herve Gourdel, the French tourist beheaded by jihadists last month, the defence ministry said on Friday.

• Final Tally for Air Algerie Crash 116: Burkinabe Official

  Two people originally believed to have travelled on an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali last week did not board the flight, reducing the official death toll to 116, a senior official in Burkina Faso said on Friday.

• Little Girl in Air Algerie Crash Was 'Scared of Flying'

  A French girl who died in the Air Algerie plane crash had confided to her teacher she was scared of flying before departing on a trip she was otherwise excited about, an acquaintance said on Friday.

• Experts to Begin 'Difficult' Probe into Air Algerie Crash

  Investigators were due on the site of the Air Algerie plane disaster in Mali today to try and determine why the jetliner came down with such force that it completely disintegrated.

• French Nationals on Board Missing Algerian Plane: Minister

  Many French nationals are thought to be on board an Air Algerie jet which went missing after taking off from Burkina Faso for Algiers, Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier said Thursday.

• Missing Air Algerie Flight Has Crashed: Algerian Aviation Official

  An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters on Thursday.

• Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ailing but still president

  Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who won a fourth presidential term on Friday with nearly 82 percent of the votes cast, was victorious despite frail health preventing him from even campaigning.

• Algerian military plane crashes into mountain, 77 killed

  A military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives crashed into a mountain on Tuesday, killing 77 people, the worst air disaster in the North African country in a decade.

• Over 100 killed, only one survivor in Algeria military plane crash

  A military aircraft carrying 103 people crashed in Algeria's mountainous northeast Tuesday, with a sole survivor found from one of the country's deadliest air disasters, security and emergency officials said.