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Doctors in Europe are increasingly performing hymenoplasties for brides seeking to simulate virginity. But critics say the practice reinforces oppressive religious strictures
Zinedine Zidane is sure of the quality most necessary to create a successful team: mutual respect.
Two bombs exploded Sunday at a train station in Algeria, killing at least 13 people
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook northern Algeria on Friday, knocking houses to the ground and injuring 15 people.
Slave labor in developing countries such as Brazil, China and India is fueling part of their huge economic growth, according to a State Department report released Wednesday.
At the age of just 36, Hesham Al Emadi is at the helm of an ambitious plan to create up to ten "Energy Cities" around the world.
Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil told reporters the cartel will make no new decision on production levels until Sept. 9
Moroccan security services have broken up an alleged al Qaeda-linked terrorist network planning attacks in the North African country and in Belgium, Morocco's state-run news agency reported Monday.
When a 'Yellow Dragon' roars, Beijing listens.
The second-in-command of al Qaeda has said the terrorist group does not kill innocents and that its leader Osama bin Laden is healthy, according to a transcript of an audio tape released by radical Islamist Web sites.
Doctors in Europe are increasingly performing hymenoplasties for brides seeking to simulate virginity. But critics say the practice reinforces oppressive religious strictures
Zinedine Zidane is sure of the quality most necessary to create a successful team: mutual respect.
Two bombs exploded Sunday at a train station in Algeria, killing at least 13 people
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook northern Algeria on Friday, knocking houses to the ground and injuring 15 people.
Slave labor in developing countries such as Brazil, China and India is fueling part of their huge economic growth, according to a State Department report released Wednesday.
At the age of just 36, Hesham Al Emadi is at the helm of an ambitious plan to create up to ten "Energy Cities" around the world.
Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil told reporters the cartel will make no new decision on production levels until Sept. 9
Moroccan security services have broken up an alleged al Qaeda-linked terrorist network planning attacks in the North African country and in Belgium, Morocco's state-run news agency reported Monday.
When a 'Yellow Dragon' roars, Beijing listens.
The second-in-command of al Qaeda has said the terrorist group does not kill innocents and that its leader Osama bin Laden is healthy, according to a transcript of an audio tape released by radical Islamist Web sites.
Austrian officials are seeking to secure the release of two Austrian nationals who were kidnapped by an al Qaeda group while vacationing in North Africa ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline.
Motorists may fume when forking over $3 a gallon at the local service station, but as it turns out, your local filling spot makes chump change from a gallon of gas.
The abduction of two Austrian tourists has raised concerns about the upsurge in extremist activity in north Africa
One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
A car bomb attack in Algeria has killed three people and wounded 23, the Algerian Press Service reported.
Dakar Rally organizers have insisted that the event will be back in 2009, after it was called off this weekend because of terrorist threats.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility Thursday for a bombing a day earlier in Algeria that killed four police officers and wounded 20 people at a building housing security forces.
More than 24 hours after twin bombings killed dozens in the Algerian capital, rescue workers continued to search for nearly a dozen people trapped beneath the debris of a partially collapsed United Nations building.
Terror experts in Europe fear the bombings in Algeria offer a prime example of how jihad could spread to Europe
International leaders Tuesday rushed to condemn deadly twin bombings in the Algerian capital, which appeared to target government and United Nations buildings. Here is some of the reaction.
Since forming an alliance with Osama bin Laden, Algeria's Islamist rebels have grown more sophisticated -- and lethal
France's President is expected to finalize a series of big business deals on his visit -- but he'll hope to quell rising tensions between the former colonial possession too
His approval rating is sliding as the French public blame him for the poor health of the economy. But the President was in bullish form going on television to announce new measures
Thirty suspected Islamic terrorists went on trial Monday in a courthouse they are charged with plotting to destroy with a truck bomb.
A North Dakota State College of Science men's basketball player is accused of using a school telephone credit card number to make more than $10,000 worth of unauthorized calls.
A militant Islamic group that recently renamed itself al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for two suicide attacks that killed dozens in Algeria -- including an assassination attempt on the country's president.
OPEC was deciding Tuesday whether to maintain its production quota or give it a modest and symbolic boost to calm oil markets worried that there may not be enough crude to meet global demand by year's end.
Gas prices rose 6.5 cents over the past two weeks to $2.81 per gallon of self-serve regular, the first increase at the pump since early July, a national survey said Sunday.
The death toll kept rising in Algeria on Saturday after a car bomb attack near a coast guard barracks about 50 miles from Algiers.
At least 14 people were killed and 60 others wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a crowd waiting to see Algeria's president in Batna, east of the capital of Algiers, the Algerie Presse Service reported.
Ronaldinho, starting as a substitute after declining to take part in last month's Copa America, came off the bench to score the second goal in Brazil's 2-0 friendly win over Algeria on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court refused to block the pending transfer of an accused terrorist held by the U.S. military, despite his fears of being tortured if he is sent back to his home country of Algeria.
Oil prices will stay high all summer due to refinery constraints and high demand internationally, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said in remarks published Wednesday.
Algeria's Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said Monday there was "not much" OPEC could do to bring down high oil prices as global crude oil stocks were already sufficient.
Oil prices slid Monday despite rising global demand and North Sea field maintenance, which exacerbated supply worries.
Long before anyone in the U.S. was taking al-Qaeda seriously, Jean-Louis Bruguiere warned of its danger. His retirement ends an era
First, London. Then, Scotland. Who might be behind the apparently related incidents in Britain?
The Bush administration on Tuesday added seven nations, including several key U.S. allies in the Middle East, to its human trafficking blacklist
The Al-Jazeera television network Tuesday aired footage purportedly showing one of the suicide bombings last month in Algeria that killed at least two dozen people.
Moroccan police say they have arrested a fifth member of a suspected terror cell close to where three other suspects blew themselves up and one was shot dead on Tuesday, according to news agencies.
Algerian security forces have stepped up their presence on the streets of the capital, Algiers, one day after the city was shaken by two deadly bomb blasts and amid fears of a renewed insurgency in the north African country.
An al Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's two bomb blasts in Algiers that the state-run news agency Algerie Presse Service said killed at least 24 people and wounded 222.
Algeria have axed France-based striker Abdelmalek Cherrad, accusing him of severe indiscipline, after he walked out before last weekend's African Nations Cup qualifier in Algiers.
Six people were killed and 13 wounded Tuesday in seven separate attacks in northern Algeria, a statement from the country's interior minister said.
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Egyptian internationals Ibrahim Said and Amr Zaki are to start trials at English Premier League club Sheffield United, their Cairo club Zamalek have said.
An Algerian man already under indictment in the Madrid train bombings but free on provisional liberty was charged with fresh counts of terrorism Friday in a separate case and ordered back to jail, according to court documents viewed by CNN.
Under tight security, a terror trial for six Algerian men, one of whom is charged in an alleged failed plot to attack a U.S.-Spanish military base in southern Spain, began in the capital Monday.
President Bush made a case for democracy and moderate voices in the Middle East Tuesday, challenging world leaders to play a supportive role and rejecting claims that the West is at war with Islam.
Germany's federal prosecutor's office announced Saturday it has arrested a German of Moroccan descent on charges that he recruited suicide bombers for Iraq and financially supported the al Qaeda terrorist network.
A Spanish judge has indicted 33 suspected Islamic extremists in a failed plot to attack the National Court in Madrid, which tries terrorism cases, with a truck bomb, according to a copy of the court order viewed by CNN.
Interpol, the international police agency, issued an "international wanted persons notice" Wednesday for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Just a day after six sub-Saharan Africans died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, there was no mass assault by immigrants overnight, an unusual spell of quiet after several weeks of disturbances, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN on Friday.
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French police detained at least seven people early Monday suspected of plotting a "terrorist action" in France, authorities said.
"Trust but verify," Ronald Reagan once said, describing his approach to Soviet arms reduction efforts. The unspoken corollary to his admonition was that promises alone are worthless.
Western Sahara's exiled Polisario Front independence movement has released all of its remaining Moroccan prisoners of war -- a total of 404 -- the International Committee of the Red Cross and a U.S. official said.
Two Algerian diplomats were abducted Thursday afternoon outside a restaurant in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood, a police source said.
Christian Chukwu was effectively sacked as coach by the Nigerian FA on Tuesday because of disappointing results in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.
Nigeria and Senegal's places in the 2006 World Cup finals have been left in doubt after being held to draws in African qualifying on Sunday.
Carbon dioxide could be buried underground as a means of combating climate change, scientists have suggested.
Crude oil prices tumbled 3 percent Wednesday reaching a seven-week low, after a government report showed a rise in crude inventories and a buildup in gasoline stocks ahead of summer.
Suicide bomb attacks outside a hospital and a police station killed 27 Iraqis early Monday, officials said.
"The Battle of Algiers" -- the groundbreaking 1965 film about the uprising that led to the 1962 independence of Algeria -- is back in a new DVD edition, and it reaches across nearly 40 years to grab you with its relevance to the war on terror today.
Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy snatched the Olympic men's 800 meters title, timing a late surge to the line to perfection.
U.S. President George W. Bush has invited the leaders of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan and Yemen to meet with G-8 leaders at next month's summit in the coastal resort town of Sea Island, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
An Algerian terrorist who held 32 Europeans hostage in the Sahara Desert last year has been captured in Chad, the German Federal Prosecutor's office said.
Polling is under way in Algeria in a closely-watched presidential election in Africa's second-largest country.
Belgium's 2002 World Cup coach Robert Waseige says he is not yet ready to sign his contract with the Algerian national team, due to other commitments.
Tennis chiefs are in talks with the Danish and Algerian federations after the Danes refused to visit the north African country for a Davis Cup tie on security grounds.
A small group of U.S. troops quietly helped Chad's military in a running battle this week against an Algerian Islamic group, U.S. sources said Thursday.
Several people were hurt when the Moroccan military broke up a demonstration by protesters angry over the government response to the country's deadly earthquake, a local official said.
The deadly earthquake in northern Morocco struck a populated area with few modern amenities and limited access to the outside world.
Algeria coach Rabah Saadane has resigned following his team's 3-1 defeat by Morocco in the African Nations Cup quarter-finals.
Holders Cameroon and Algeria sneaked into the Nations Cup quarterfinals at the expense of four-times winners Egypt, whose coach Mohsen Salah quit.
Waves of pilgrims are taking part in devil-stoning rituals at the Hajj pilgrimage, a day after 244 people were crushed to death during the same rites.
Cameroon, winners of the last two African Nations Cups, were held to a surprise 1-1 draw by outsiders Algeria as they began the defence of their crown on Sunday.
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