Algeria plans to build first nuclear plant by 2025 -report
Source: Zawya Regional
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-20 02:31:33 -0700 | green-news
Monday, May 20, 2013 Algeria plans to build its first nuclear power plant by 2025 in a bid to diversify its energy resources and meet soaring demand for electricity, the country's Energy and Mines Minister Youcef Yousfi said in remarks...
Algeria censors dailies over Bouteflika 'coma' reports
Source: The Daily Star
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-19 16:25:16 -0700 | political-news
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seen at the presidential palace in Algiers, in this file picture taken December 11, 2011. Algeria censored two dailies over reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, hospitalised in Paris since April 27, will return home in...
Algeria pilots' strike grounds national carrier
Source: Daily Nation
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-18 16:11:57 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary News agency APS reported pilots at Algiers airport as saying their demands related to salaries, although no official of the aircrew union was available for comment. Air Algerie planes were grounded for several hours on Saturday when...
Viggo Mortensen to Star in French Film
Source: Variety
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-18 14:38:48 -0700 | entertainment-news
Viggo Mortensen is set for his first French-language role in helmer-scribe David Oelhoffen's Loin des hommes (Far From Men). The film is inspired by The Host, one of six short stories in French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus' book, Exile and the...
Maersk sales fall in first quarter
Source: Times of Oman
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-17 23:40:27 -0700 | business-news
Moeller-Maersk reported yesterday a drop in net profit and sales in the first quarter amid sluggish economies in North America and Europe. Net profit fell by 33 per cent to 4.46 billion kroner ($771 million), but was significantly higher than...
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
Source: Associated Press
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-17 08:24:18 -0700 | political-news
The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria. With the president in a French hospital recovering from a stroke, the generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Africa's largest country for a half-century is reaching its...
Drought-tolerant trees, bushes survive thanks to dispersing deep roots.
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-16 20:07:41 -0700 | green-news
05/16/2013 08:01:33 PM PDT Such native plants as coast live oak, valley oak, toyon, flannel bush, Western redbud and California lilac (ceanothus) are among the most resilient of plants as the weather gets dry and warm after spring.
Significant Risks in Passive Chinese ETFs
Source: The Motley Fool
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-15 07:38:50 -0700 | business-news
Passive, index-tracking exchange-traded funds are in huge demand -- but are they always wise investments?...The year-to-date return is -5.08% and a dividend has yet to be established or paid (see the price chart below). Some of the risks I see...
Algeria: Bloggers Expose State of Local Hospitals
Source: Africa Headlines
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-15 03:55:15 -0700 | political-news
Algiers As their president recovered in Paris from a minor stroke, Algerian internet users mounted a movement to demand better hospitals in their own country. A new Facebook page urged Algerian citizens to take to the streets on May 4th...
Saudi owner paid pirates $2.6m ...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 17:23:30 -0700 | political-news
The Saudi owner of an Algerian cargo ship whose crew were held by Somali pirates for 10 months admitted paying $2.6m to free them in November 2011, an Algerian paper reported yetserday. The MV Blida, carrying 17 Algerians, six Ukrainians,...
Algeria: Algerian President's Health Improving - PM
Source: Africa Headlines
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 11:05:58 -0700 | health-news
Algiers Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's health condition is improving and he is closely following up the situation in the country, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said Saturday, state-run TV reported. Bouteflika, 76, suffered a transient ischemic attack last month and is...
Egypt's Orascom Telecom says it rejects Altimo's buyout offer (Reuters)
Source: Xtra News
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 10:08:50 -0700 | business-news
Egyptian group Orascom Telecom Holding's management has recommended shareholders reject an offer by a subsidiary of Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's Altimo to buy the company for $0.70 (46 pence) a share. A Cyprus-based subsidiary of Altimo made the offer in...
Peter Worthington in his own words
Source: Delhi News-Record
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 03:55:40 -0700 | allnews
When the Sun' s George Gross died suddenly in March 2008, at age 85, there were few of his contemporaries left alive to recall the old days, when he was in his prime and his world was young...After attending his...
Peter Worthington in his own words
Source: Delhi News-Record
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-14 03:55:40 -0700 | allnews
When the Sun' s George Gross died suddenly in March 2008, at age 85, there were few of his contemporaries left alive to recall the old days, when he was in his prime and his world was young...After attending his...
Business › JGC posts profit in shadow of deadly Algeria siege
Source: Japan Today
Algiers :: Algeria | updated 2013-05-13 15:56:14 -0700 | travel-news
A Japanese company whose employees were killed in a hostage siege in the Algerian desert earlier this year reported bumper profits on Monday, despite the standoff in the Sahara. Engineering firm JGC lost 10 Japanese employees, hired directly or indirectly,...
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