Algeria Bound

An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed to one year a 10-year jail term handed to opposition activist Yacine Mebarki, convicted of "offending Islam", his lawyer said. The court upheld rulings against Mebarki on charges including "offending the precepts of...

Covid assaults the MENA region Iran, Jordan and Morocco have recorded thousands of new Covid-19 infections in recent days, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that lockdowns could not stamp out the pandemic. "More than 60 percent of all cases in the...

Algeria's supreme court on Wednesday said the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two ex-intelligence chiefs convicted of conspiracy against the state would be retried after appeals. The once mighty Said Bouteflika was long seen as the real power...

The head of Algeria's top private media group was jailed for five years on Sunday, the company said, the toughest sentence handed to a press mogul in the North African country. Anis Rahmani, chief of the Ennahar group, is the latest figure close to the clan of former...