Algeria Unrest

Shops in central Paris were looted and a woman was killed in a high-speed car crash in southern France in what the government slammed Friday as "unacceptable" unrest following a key victory for Algeria's national football team.

Algerian troops today killed a jihadist east of the capital, the defence ministry said, bringing to 12 the number of gunmen killed by security forces in a week.

Unknown attackers fired rockets at a gas facility in Algeria Friday, energy groups Statoil and BP and an Algerian local official said. There were no immediate reports of injuries to the employees on the site in the Sahara Desert.

Algerian authorities have arrested 38 people in connection with deadly ethnic unrest between Berbers and Arabs in the south of the country, police and the gendarmerie said today.

French police said some 30 people were arrested in the Paris region and the rest in cities across the country, after Algeria reached the last 16 for the first time in their history with a 1-1 draw against Russia.

French police arrested at least 74 people overnight Friday after rioting and looting erupted following Algeria's historic qualification for the second round of the World Cup.

Thousands of Algerians defied a government ban on protests and a massive deployment of riot police to rally in the capital on Saturday, demanding democratic reforms a day after similar protests toppled Egypt's authoritarian leader.Heavily armed police tried to seal off the city of Algiers, blocking streets, lining up along the march route and setti...

Shops in central Paris were looted and a woman was killed in a high-speed car crash in southern France in what the government slammed Friday as "unacceptable" unrest following a key victory for Algeria's national football team.

Algerian troops today killed a jihadist east of the capital, the defence ministry said, bringing to 12 the number of gunmen killed by security forces in a week.

Unknown attackers fired rockets at a gas facility in Algeria Friday, energy groups Statoil and BP and an Algerian local official said. There were no immediate reports of injuries to the employees on the site in the Sahara Desert.

Algerian authorities have arrested 38 people in connection with deadly ethnic unrest between Berbers and Arabs in the south of the country, police and the gendarmerie said today.

French police said some 30 people were arrested in the Paris region and the rest in cities across the country, after Algeria reached the last 16 for the first time in their history with a 1-1 draw against Russia.

French police arrested at least 74 people overnight Friday after rioting and looting erupted following Algeria's historic qualification for the second round of the World Cup.

Thousands of Algerians defied a government ban on protests and a massive deployment of riot police to rally in the capital on Saturday, demanding democratic reforms a day after similar protests toppled Egypt's authoritarian leader.Heavily armed police tried to seal off the city of Algiers, blocking streets, lining up along the march route and setti...