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Algeria's new prime minister Noureddine Bedoui gives a press conference, in Algiers, Algeria, Thursday, March 14, 2019. Algeria's new prime minister is promising to create a government within days as the country faces mass protests calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Algerian prime minister promises new government in days

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Demonstrators stage a protest to denounce President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term on Place de la Republique in Paris, Sunday, March 10, 2019. The protesters are challenging Bouteflika's fitness to run for a fifth term in next month's election. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Algeria’s president abandons bid for 5th term amid protests

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Demonstrators stage a protest to denounce President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term on Place de la Republique in Paris, Sunday, March 10, 2019. The protesters are challenging Bouteflika's fitness to run for a fifth term in next month's election. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

The Latest: Algeria’s president names new prime minister

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Algerians gather for a demonstration in Algiers, Friday, March 8, 2019. A festive crowd of thousands of protesters marched through central Algiers to protest President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's hold on power. The protesters are challenging Bouteflika's fitness to run for a fifth term in next month's election.(AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)

Algerian president back home amid mass protests against him

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds up a sign that reads, &quot;no to a 5th term&quot; during a protest to denounce President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, in Marseille, southern France, Sunday, March 3, 2019. Algeria's Constitutional Council has been placed under high security as President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term is due to be formally submitted. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Algeria: Anger boils despite president’s offer to protesters

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Algerian journalists are surrounded by police officers as they demonstrate at the Freedom of the Press square in Algiers, Algeria, to denounce their media outlets' refusal to let them cover demonstrations against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, Algeria, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Fateh Gudoum)

Algerians march en masse against 5th term for sick president

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Students, gathered at the Medicine university, stage a protest to denounce President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, in Algiers, Algeria, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Hundreds of students have staged protests in several university cities across Algeria to voice their opposition to ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Students stage protests across Algeria against president

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Correction: Algeria-Potential Presidents story

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In this picture dated Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, French Dominican bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Oran, northwestern Algeria, Jean-Paul Vesco, conducts a spiritual vigil at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary ahead of the monks' and 12 other clergymen's beatification in the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. Seven French monks were kidnapped and killed by a radical group at the height of the insurgency in 1996. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Catholic monks killed in Algeria’s civil war are beatified

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 1st left, walks down the plane steps upon his arrival at Algiers international airport, Algeria, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Algeria's presidency says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will start a two-day visit to Algeria Sunday with a focus on economic ties between the two countries. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Bouteflika, citing flu, scraps talks with Saudi crown prince

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Algeria denies forced expulsions of migrants to desert

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia ahead of talks in Algiers, Monday Sept.17, 2018. Merkel is visiting Algeria for a day to promote bilateral ties and discuss migration and the situation in neighboring Libya. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

Merkel, Algerian officials discuss migration, Libya

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 27, 1956 file photo, French troops seal off Algiers' notorious casbah, 400-year-old teeming Arab quarter. French President Emmanuel Macron has formally recognized that the French state was responsible for the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military's &quot;system&quot; of torture during Algeria's independence war. (AP Photo)

France’s Macron admits system of torture during Algeria war

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

3 Algerian soldiers, 2 extremists killed in clash

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Algerian army chief rejects role in presidential election

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In this Monday, June 4, 2018, file photo, Nigeriens and third-country migrants head toward Libya from Agadez, Niger. Algeria's deadly expulsions of migrants into the Sahara Desert have nearly ground to a halt after widespread condemnation and the abrupt firing of two of its top security officials. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Algeria stops forcing migrants into Sahara after outrage

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press

Illustration on fighting extremism in Algeria by Linas Garsys/The WAshington Times

Ending extremism with a just solution

By Abdelkader Messahel

In this image from Algerian TV agency Ennahar TV, bodies are gathered near scene of a fatal military plane crash at Boufarik military air base near the Algerian capital, Algiers, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. An Algerian military plane carrying soldiers and their families crashed soon after takeoff Wednesday into a field in northern Algeria, killing more than 250 people in what appeared to be the North African nation's worst-ever plane crash. (Ennahar TV via AP)

Algeria crash victims being identified, no word on probe

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

Algerian soldiers watch the military plane after it crashed in Boufarik, near the Algerian capital, Algiers, Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Algerian emergency services say 181 people have been killed in a military plane crash and some survivors have been rescued. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

The Latest: Military plane crashes in Algeria, 257 dead

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New head coach of the Hungarian national soccer team Georges Leekens of Belgium speaks during a press conference in the training centre in Telki, 19 kms west of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)

Ex-Belgium and Algeria coach Leekens hired to coach Hungary

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