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Algerian police seize 19 tons of marijuana
Algerian police have seized 19 tonnes of cannabis resin in the western Tlemcen region, near the Moroccan border, and arrested four suspected traffickers, an Algerian daily reported on Thursday. The seizure was made on Wednesday at a farm in the border village of Akid Lotfi, where four people, including the…
Seventh Algerian sets herself on fire
ALGIERS — Two people in Algeria set themselves on fire on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total number of attempted public suicides to seven in a week, in replica of a protest that sparked a popular revolution in neighboring Tunisia. A woman in her fifties soaked herself with a flammable product…
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