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FILE - In this July 2, 2020 file photo, activist Karim Tabbou flashes a victory sign as he is greeted by supporters as he is released from the prison of Kolea, west of Algiers. A politician and a journalist who are prominent opposition figures in Algeria have been arrested days ahead of the country's parliamentary election, according to a group of lawyers defending jailed activists of the pro-democracy movement. The National Committee for the Liberation of the Detained said politician Karim Tabbou was arrested Thursday night at his home in the southwestern suburbs of Algiers. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, FILE)
Algeria votes for new parliament but activists plan boycott

Jun. 12, 2021 02:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this May 7, 2021 file photo, demonstrators supporting the Hirak pro-democracy movement are pushed by police officers in Algiers, Friday, May 7, 2021. A crackdown on the pro-democracy Hirak movement, with hundreds arrested around Algeria during last week's 117th Friday march, casts a pall over presidential efforts to give a new face to a nation whose army plays a backseat role in governance. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)
Hope, tension mark kickoff of Algerian election campaign

May. 21, 2021 11:31 AM EDT

FILE - In this file image made from video on Feb. 27, 2021, Brahim Ghali, leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front speaks to a crowd in Tindouf, Algeria. Ghali, the leader of an Algeria-backed movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, was admitted to a hospital in northern Spain last month. His presence under a disguised identity didn’t go unnoticed to the government in Morocco, the country that annexed the northwestern African territory nearly half a century ago. (AP Photo, file)
An ailing Sahrawi leader shakes Spain and Morocco's alliance

By Aritz Parra May. 20, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

Algerian students demonstrate, one with a poster reading "The right to defend our rights" in Algiers, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Protesters took to the streets of Algiers and other cities around Algeria last Friday in a bid to restart weekly pro-democracy demonstrations. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)
Algerian students restart weekly protests cut off by virus

Mar. 02, 2021 12:57 PM EST

A man closes a restaurant while Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune speaks on television, Thursday, Feb.18, 2021 in Algiers. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced he will dissolve parliament to pave the way for new elections and ordered the release of 32 protesters whose pro-democracy movement pushed out his predecessor two years ago. However he didn't set a date for the elections yet, and protesters want deeper change to Algeria's still-secretive power structure. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)
Algerian president dissolves parliament, frees prisoners

Feb. 18, 2021 04:40 PM EST

People wait after receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the COVID-19 in a vaccination center in the Lyon sports arena, central France, Thursday, Fev. 18, 2021. French Health Minister Olivier Veran promised stepped-up testing and vaccinations, but the government has resisted calls from some local doctors and leaders for a new lockdown. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
The Latest: Nevada has 1st confirmed case of SAfrica variant

By The Associated Press Feb. 18, 2021 05:57 AM EST

This Sept. 2020 photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a clinician preparing to administer investigational Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine appears to protect against symptomatic illness with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses. Johnson & Johnson said Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 that in the U.S. and seven other countries, the first single-shot vaccine appears 66% effective overall at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19. It was more protective against severe symptoms, 85%. (Johnson & Johnson via AP)
The Latest: Vaccinated congressman tests positive for virus

By The Associated Press Jan. 29, 2021 04:36 AM EST

Algeria leader back to Germany for COVID-19-linked treatment

Jan. 10, 2021 12:17 PM EST
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned Sunday to Germany, where he spent two months for treatment of a COVID-19 infection,...

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Still recovering from COVID-19, Algeria's president suddenly reappeared Sunday Dec. 13, 2020, after nearly two months out of the public eye, saying in a video message that it may still be several more weeks before he is fit enough to return to his North African country. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, File)
President returns to Algeria, reports recovery from COVID-19

Dec. 29, 2020 04:06 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Still recovering from COVID-19, Algeria's president suddenly reappeared Sunday Dec. 13, 2020, after nearly two months out of the public eye, saying in a video message that it may still be several more weeks before he is fit enough to return to his North African country. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, File)
After battling virus, Algerian leader suddenly reappears

Dec. 13, 2020 12:54 PM EST

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 file photo, Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune delivers a speech during an inauguration ceremony in the presidential palace, in Algiers, Algeria. Tebboune has been transferred to Germany for specialist medical treatment a day after his country’s presidency announced he had been hospitalized but not revealed why. Several senior officials in the 75-year-old president’s entourage developed COVID-19 symptoms on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020 and the president was placed in what the government called “voluntary preventive confinement.” (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou, FILE)
Algerian president finishes virus treatment, undergoes tests

Nov. 15, 2020 11:54 AM EST

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, center, arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station during a vote for a revised constitution, in Algiers, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Algerians are voting on whether to approve a revised constitution that imposes term limits and aims at answering demands from pro-democracy protesters who pushed out the president last year. (AP Photo/Toufik Doudou)
Algeria votes on new constitution amid opposition boycott

Nov. 01, 2020 09:45 AM EST

*File* In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 file photo, the Mosque of Algiers is under construction in Algiers. Algeria's prime minister is finally to inaugurate a landmark mosque Wednesday that was completed last year but shuttered because of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)
Algeria's PM to inaugurate landmark mosque in Algiers

By Aomar Ouali Oct. 28, 2020 01:54 PM EDT

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left, is received by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, right, in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The visit is part of U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper's North Africa tour and is his first visit to Africa as defense secretary. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
US signs 10-year military cooperation deal with Morocco

Oct. 02, 2020 12:17 PM EDT

Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House's coronavirus task force, meets with local media Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., to talk about ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the area. (Chris Ochsner/The Kansas City Star via AP)
The Latest: S. Korea reports largest virus jump since March

By The Associated Press Aug. 15, 2020 01:23 AM EDT