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Environment: Beach pollution in TunisiaF

By Akim Rezgui with Francoise Kadri in Tunis: Tahar Jaouebi looks out from a beach south of Tunis remembering the 1990s, when the water was still clean enough to bathe in. "Now I can't swim any more, and neither can my son," he says. Jaouebi, 47, is one of hundreds of...

Algeria: Attacks on journalists continueF

(Photo: Journalists Mouloudj (left) and Bouras (right)): An Algerian journalist and rights activist was taken into custody on Sunday facing a charge of "glorifying terrorism", one of his lawyers said. Hassan Bouras was also charged with belonging to a terrorist...

Algeria: Another bus crash kills 13 people in NaamaF

Thirteen people died and eight were injured in Algeria on Sunday when a bus collided with a truck in the northwest, emergency services said. The crash happened in the Oued Khebaza locality in Naama province, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) south of the capital...

Egypt condemns 8 foreigners to death for smuggling heroinF

A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced eight foreigners and two Egyptians to death on charges of smuggling in over two tonnes of heroin by sea, a judicial source said. Authorities seized the drugs brought in via the Red Sea, worth around 2.5 billion pounds ($159...

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