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Algeria blasts European Parliament for condemning a French-Algerian author's arrest

Jan. 28, 2025 09:37 AM EST

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian lawmakers condemned the European Parliament for a resolution criticizing the arrest of French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal. Lawmakers from both chambers of the North African nation's parliament on Monday signed a statement rebuking the European...

Valérie André, aviator and parachutist who became France's first female general, dies aged 102

Jan. 24, 2025 11:26 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — Valérie André, a French aviator and parachutist who became the first woman to become a general officer in France, has died. She was 102. France's ministry of armies and the French presidency said André died on Jan. 21. André, who had a medicine...

Mali rebel group frees Spanish national kidnapped in Algeria

Jan. 21, 2025 17:59 PM EST

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali's predominately Tuareg north, said on X that it freed Spanish...

Spain says a citizen has been kidnapped in northern Africa

Jan. 17, 2025 05:32 AM EST

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country, while Spanish media report that the man is being held by a jihadist group. Spanish state news agency EFE and newspaper El País both report that the man...