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1. News - World - FRANCE

   French president recognises ‘brutal’ rule of Algeria

   Posted Dec 20th 2012, 09:32pm by AFP

   ... News World Algeria Agence France-Presse in Algiers France’s President Francois Hollande said in Algiers on Thursday that he recognised his country’s century of “brutal” colonial rule over the Algerian people, as he sought to launch a new era in relations. “Over 132 years, Algeria was subjected to a profoundly unjust and brutal system,” Hollande told the Algerian parliament on the second ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1109314/french-president-recognises-brutal-rule-algeria
2. News - Asia - HOSTAGE CRISIS

   Philippine hostages fly home after Algerian crisis

   Posted Jan 20th 2013, 04:21pm by AFP

   ... on Sunday it had offered consular assistance to 52 Filipinos in Algeria and 39 of those arrived in Manila on Sunday. “Based on reports from our team in Algeria... we have 52 from Algeria who have ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1132301/philippine-hostages-fly-home-after-algerian-crisis
3. News - World - ALGERIA HOSTAGE CRISIS

   Algeria desert siege death toll may rise as missing sought

   Posted Jan 20th 2013, 05:56pm by AFP

   ... spoke to the Algerian prime minister yesterday and it is now clear that  this appalling terrorist incident in Algeria is now over,” he said in a  statement. “Tragically, we now know that three ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1132352/algeria-desert-siege-death-toll-may-rise-missing-sought
4. News - Asia - PHILIPPINES

   Seventh Filipino confirmed killed in Algeria

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 05:01pm by AFP

   ... News Asia Algeria hostage crisis Agence France-Presse in Manila A seventh worker from the Philippines has been confirmed killed in last week’s siege by Islamic militants of a remote natural gas plant in Algeria, the foreign department in Manila said on Thursday. The remains were identified by his British employers, foreign affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez told a news ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1135218/seventh-filipino-confirmed-killed-algeria
5. News - Asia

   Japan’s Algeria toll hits 10 as survivors head home

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 08:56pm by AFP

   ... struggling to come to terms with the loss of her son less than two years after the March 2011 tsunami swept her husband to his death. The plane carrying survivors and bodies left Algeria on Thursday, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1135314/japans-algeria-toll-hits-10-survivors-head-home
6. News - Asia - PHILIPPINES

   'We were used as human shields,' Filipino survivor says

   Posted Jan 21st 2013, 03:33pm by AFP

   ... said it did not know if any Filipinos had been killed during the 72-hour siege at the In Amenas gas plant, deep inside the Sahara Desert, that ended on Saturday. Algeria’s Ennahar television ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1132992/six-filipinos-dead-algeria-siege-four-missing
7. News - World - ALGERIA

   Algerian army frees 650 hostages, including 70 foreigners

   Posted Jan 18th 2013, 02:03pm by Reuters and AFP

   ... of captives, resulting in dozens of deaths. With Western leaders clamouring for details of the assault they said Algeria had launched on Thursday without consulting them, a local source said the gas ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1130910/anxiety-mounts-over-deadly-hostage-raid-algeria
8. News - World - ALGERIA

   Foreigners still trapped in Sahara hostage crisis

   Posted Jan 19th 2013, 10:35am by Reuters in Algiers and In Amenas

   ... with the nationalities of the rest of the dead still unclear, he said. Algeria’s state news agency APS put the total number of dead hostages at 12, including both foreigners and locals. The base was home ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1131555/foreigners-still-trapped-sahara-hostage-crisis
9. News - World - ALGERIA

   Algerian gas field kidnappers demand prisoner swap

   Posted Jan 19th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... Statoil and Sonatrach of Algeria. BP said a "small number" of its staff were unaccounted for yesterday, adding that it had evacuated hundreds of workers from the complex and other ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1131331/algerian-gas-field-kidnappers-demand-prisoner-swap
10. News - World - ALGERIA HOSTAGE CRISIS

    Survivor Alexandre Berceaux and others tell of terrifying ordeal

    Posted Jan 19th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

    ... Alexandre Berceaux worked for CIS Catering, the French company responsible for feeding more than 700 workers on the huge Tiguentourine site located in the desert in Algeria's south. When dozens ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1131363/survivor-alexandre-berceaux-and-others-tell-terrifying-ordeal

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