Algiers

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif said she had won for her country's women as Algeria's Paris Games medallists received a hero's welcome at Algiers airport on Monday.

An Algerian military plane crashed near Boufarik airport near the capital Algiers, killing several people, local media and a witness said.The plane was carrying more than 100 military personnel, a local TV station said.

257 people died after an Algerian military plane carrying army personnel crashed near an airbase outside the capital Algiers, reported Algerian State TV. The plane came down near Boufarif airport shortly after taking off.

It's a rubbish job, but someone has to do it. Or some animal: in the alleyways of Algiers' famed Kasbah, donkeys shift tonnes of trash every day.

The OPEC secretary-general said the group was committed to an output-cutting deal made in Algiers in September.

Last month in Algiers, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed modest oil output cuts. The goal is to cut production to a range of 32.50-33.0 million barrels per day (bpd).

OPEC members had on September 28 agreed a production target of 32.5-33.0 million barrels a day at their meeting in Algiers "to accelerate the ongoing draw-down of the stock overhang and bring...re-balancing forward".

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members may call an extraordinary meeting to discuss oil prices if they reach consensus during an informal gathering in Algiers this month, Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said during a visit to Algeria, the country's state news agency APS said on Sunday.

An Air Algeria plane en route to Marseille has been forced to return to Algiers due to an unspecified technical failure.

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.

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.

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.

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

An Algerian air force MiG-25 fighter jet crashed on a training exercise late Tuesday but the pilot ejected safely, the defence ministry said.

Hundreds of protesters thronged the grounds of the presidential palace recently, demanding a better life. Algeria has seen many demonstrations like this one in its tumultuous modern history, but this time something was different: The marchers were the police usually in charge of crowd control.

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif said she had won for her country's women as Algeria's Paris Games medallists received a hero's welcome at Algiers airport on Monday.

An Algerian military plane crashed near Boufarik airport near the capital Algiers, killing several people, local media and a witness said.The plane was carrying more than 100 military personnel, a local TV station said.

257 people died after an Algerian military plane carrying army personnel crashed near an airbase outside the capital Algiers, reported Algerian State TV. The plane came down near Boufarif airport shortly after taking off.

It's a rubbish job, but someone has to do it. Or some animal: in the alleyways of Algiers' famed Kasbah, donkeys shift tonnes of trash every day.

The OPEC secretary-general said the group was committed to an output-cutting deal made in Algiers in September.

Last month in Algiers, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed modest oil output cuts. The goal is to cut production to a range of 32.50-33.0 million barrels per day (bpd).

OPEC members had on September 28 agreed a production target of 32.5-33.0 million barrels a day at their meeting in Algiers "to accelerate the ongoing draw-down of the stock overhang and bring...re-balancing forward".

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members may call an extraordinary meeting to discuss oil prices if they reach consensus during an informal gathering in Algiers this month, Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said during a visit to Algeria, the country's state news agency APS said on Sunday.

An Air Algeria plane en route to Marseille has been forced to return to Algiers due to an unspecified technical failure.

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.

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.

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.

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

An Algerian air force MiG-25 fighter jet crashed on a training exercise late Tuesday but the pilot ejected safely, the defence ministry said.

Hundreds of protesters thronged the grounds of the presidential palace recently, demanding a better life. Algeria has seen many demonstrations like this one in its tumultuous modern history, but this time something was different: The marchers were the police usually in charge of crowd control.