Latest French Algeria Stories

2008-06-21 15:00:27

The governments of France and Algeria signed an agreement Saturday in which France will help its former colony develop nuclear power. The pact was signed in Algiers by the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, the BBC reported.

2006-01-27 08:09:56

By Kerstin Gehmlich PARIS (Reuters) - When Abdelkrim Klech left Algeria as a child, an angry crowd at the port shouted at his family to go to hell and never come back from France.

2006-01-04 08:52:57

PARIS (Reuters) - France should change a law that encourages the positive portrayal of its colonial past in school books, President Jacques Chirac said on Wednesday. "The current text divides the French. It must be rewritten.

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