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The Office of Citizen Exchanges, Youth Programs Division, of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the Youth Leadership Program with Algeria. Public and private nonprofit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) may submit proposals to provide youth and adult participants from Algeria with an approximately four-week U.S.-based exchange program in summer 2012 focused on civic education, youth leadership development, respect for diversity, and community engagement, and to support follow-on community service projects in their home communities. The U.S. Embassy in Algiers will recruit, screen, and select Algerian participants. The award recipient will be required to recruit, screen, and sel...
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TRIPOLI, Libya - Members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's family were reported Monday to have arrived in Algeria, a neighbor Libyan rebels have accused of supporting the ousted regime.
The report cited Algeria's Foreign Affairs Ministry as saying the family entered the neighboring country on Monday. It did not immediately provide additional details or say whether Gadhafi himself was with the family.
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Official country name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Capital: Algiers
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TRIPOLI, Libya - Members of Moammar Gadhafi's family, including his wife, daughter and two sons, have fled to Algeria, the Algerian government confirmed Monday.
Algerian state television reported that the Libyans who arrived in Algeria early Monday included the deposed leader's wife, Safiyah, his daughter, Aysha, and two of his sons, Hannibal and Mohammed. The group, which also included an undisclosed number of Gadhafi's grandchildren, entered by crossing the Algerian-Libyan border, the report said.
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ALGIERS, Algeria - Police faced off against rioting youths, Muslim prayer leaders called for calm and authorities canceled football matches Friday as Algeria tried to quell unrest over rising food prices.
New clashes between youths and police were reported Friday in the cities of Annaba, Oran, Bouira and Bejaia. El Watan newspaper's website showed a photo of a barricade in flames on a main avenue of the city of Tizi Ouzou.
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Morocco Vows Marrakech Bombing Will Not Derail Reform
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, the United Nations Security Council welcomed Morocco's establishment of the National Council on Human Rights (CNDH) to bolster human rights protection, particularly in the Western Sahara, as it agreed unanimously to extend the UN peace-keeping mission in the disputed territory. The Security Council also urged the Algerian-backed Polisario Front to respect the rights of Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps of southern Algeria, where they have been confined in deteriorating conditions for more than three decades.
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Moammar Gadhafi's second wife, two sons and a daughter arrived in Algeria on Monday as rebels closed in on the Libyan dictator's last stronghold.
A statement carried by Algeria's official news agency, APS, said Col. Gadhafi's wife, Sofia; his daughter Aisha; and sons Hannibal and Mohammed, accompanied by their children, had "entered Algeria at 8:45 a.m. through the Algerian-Libyan border.
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American goals do not include long-term settlements of colonists.8 In other words, for the French Army, theirs was truly a counterinsurgency, while U.S. Army involvement is counterinsurgency by proxy with the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan. Because counterinsurgent operational design should have a close relationship to strategic objectives, we may attach some significance to differences and commonalities of purpose in counterinsurgent strategies, and it appears that U.S. doctrine writers did not compare U.S. objectives to those of the French in Algeria.
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Following an offensive, which included NATO air strikes, launched by Afghan and international forces over four days, 29 Taliban militants were confirmed dead in Baghlan province. [Al-Arabiya, 6/14] June 23: US President Barack Obama dismissed commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal after he made critical comments about senior administration officials that appeared in a profile in Rolling Stone magazine. Tribesmen in eastern Yemen blew up an oil pipeline that linked the Ma'arib province to the Red Sea coast in retaliation for an army raid on the houses of several tribesmen in the area who were believed to be sheltering al-Qa'ida militants.
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DUBLIN -- Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/661ec3/algeria_oil_and_ga) has announced the addition of the "Algeria Oil an...