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Police banned from commercial activities
Algiers- the Directorate General for National Security (DGSN) has decided to prohibit all staff carrying out any commercial activity. They must take care only of their work in the security sector
Boumerdes: One dead and two wounded in a roadside bomb
Algiers - a woman was killed and two people were injured Monday morning in the explosion of a handmade bomb in the region of Boumerdes (east of Algiers), according to security sources quoted by APS agency....
Demonstration in France for the recognition of a “state crime”
Several events were held Monday in France to seek formal recognition of the massacres committed by the French police, under Maurice Papon October 17, 1961. The protesters demanded an official recognition of the "state crime"...
A stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of October 17, 1961
Algiers- The Directorate General of Algeria Post will issue this October 17, 2011 a postage stamp of 15.00 DA to mark the 50th anniversary of the murderous repression of a pacific demonstration October 17, 1961 in Paris where hundreds of Algerians were killed....
LSP housing only for residents of the province
Algiers- the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has recently decided to put new conditions for the attribution of participatory housing (LSP) in order to give advantage only to the residents of the province where these homes are being built du to the great demand....
University campuses turned into hotels for workers
Algiers- according to a report of the national organization of democrat students, workers and officials have turned whole flats and offices under the administration of dormitories housing for their families, while the campus Algiers III in Dely Ibrahim was transformed by workers in private property...
Patients with renal failure choose spouses from the same blood group
Algiers- according to Professor Tahar Rayane, President of the Algerian society of Nephrology, many patients with renal impairment, prefer to spouses of the same blood type, and this, in order to receive successfully a kidney donated by the spouse ...
Jijel: Information and Awareness Meeting on Cancer
Five associations fighting against cancer, based in Sidi Bel-Abbes, El Oued, Batna, Algiers and Jijel agreed to ask the authorities to institutionalize October 15 as “day to fight cancer.”...
Call for the official recognition of the massacre of October 17, 1961
A hundred people have signed an appeal, launched on the website “Mediapart”, for an official recognition by France of massacres of Algerian on October 17, 1961 in Paris, with the aim of a peace between the two countries...
The FLN calls on France to apologize to Algeria
ALGIERS-The head of the National Liberation Front (FLN in power) urged France on Saturday to present her "apology" to Algeria for the crimes of colonization, at a conference on the massacres of Algerians October 17, 1961, which saw the bloody suppression of a demonstration of Algerians in Paris....
Algerians consult Doctor Google!
“Doctor, please, give me this drug I saw it on the Internet, yes, on Google”. “I read on a site that there was a new drug, prescribe it for me doctor”. “Doctor, I saw it on TV in "The Doctors" series”....
An unemployed youth hangs himself in public in Annaba
The inhabitants of El Hajar, south of the wilaya (province) of Annaba, were extremely shocked yesterday afternoon by the suicide of a young man of 27, suffering from unemployment, who hang himself at a power pole....
Superannuation at AD 18,000
Algiers- the government has decided to increase the small pensions, regardless of the category or the kind of pensions that affect 591,222 pensioners....
Death of the policeman who intervened in the self-immolation of a woman
Algiers- The policeman who intervened in the self-immolation of a woman in Oran, died Friday at the hospital of Oran, where he was admitted after being injured while trying to wrest from the hands of that woman the lighter she threatened to light after being doused with gasoline, according to hospital sources....
A film on the massacre of October 17, 1961
Algiers- "October in Paris," is a film shot secretly just after the bloody events that occurred in Paris in October 1961, by the French filmmaker Jacques Panijel, which was censored at the time, will be screened for the first time since 1962...
Classes resume tomorrow, Sunday
Algiers- the majority of Autonomous Education Trade Unions have decided to resume classes from tomorrow Sunday, after four days of strike, while others still await the decision of their national councils which will meet today, although they expressed their satisfaction about the outcome of negotiations with the authority....
Women’s quota discussed at the National Assembly
ALGIERS - The draft law on the women’s quota in elected bodies, decided at 30%, which was the subject of discussion Thursday at the NPA (National People's Assembly), raises reservations and even opposition within some the parties....
Magic and witchcraft to avoid prison
Do not be surprised if you ever come across a Herz (talisman or amulets), a tuft of hair or pieces of sugar in a court. These are only the remains of some strange rituals practiced by some Algerian women in order to avoid prison for their relatives....
Annaba: The Medicine Faculty announces the results 6 hours after the exams!
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Annaba announced the results of examinations for doctor students six hours only after the legal time of these reviews, a first in the world of competitions and examinations, especially in medical schools....
