ALGERIA

The book ?Founding Myths? was particularly critical of what Garaudy viewed as excessive Jewish influence on U.S. foreign policy.

Leaders of the world's 12-member crude oil cartel gather this week in Vienna to discuss and perhaps set a production ceiling for the group in what is expected to rubber stamp the current state of affairs. It is also expected to feature a fierce tug-of-war between Saudi Arabia, the cartel's dominant producer, and Iran.

On Sunday, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz endorsed using military intervention to stop the ongoing crisis in Syria.

It has been 18 months since the Arab Spring swept through the Middle East, and, while some nations have emerged with a renewed spirit, others have plunged into daily violence. Here's a country-by-country look at travel and tourism in the region as it stands now.

Tunisia announced Tuesday that it intends to extradite former Libyan prime minister Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his home country after detaining him for eight months.

Members of Green Alliance charged the authorities with fraud for their distant third place finish.

The government is also permitting about 500 foreign observers, including 120 from the European Union, to monitor the elections.

Political scepticism may mar the Algerian parliamentary election Thursday even as the ruling government aims at easing the pressure for democratic change created by the Arab Spring revolts last year.

The U.S. oil major is preparing to sell all of its assets in one of Africa's leading producers of crude oil -- Nigeria.

Munter wasn?t viewed as a ?good fit? for the Pakistan job.

Adlene Hicheur, a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison, with one year suspended, because of his conviction in the plotting of terrorist attacks.

Adding to Mali’s insurmountable problems is the threat of civil war, prompted by an insurgency in the north by the minority Tuareg people.

On Monday, French Minister of the Interior, Claude Gueant, announced the expulsion of Algerian and Malian imams because they posed a threat to the French public's security.

The Harkis were Algerians who fought to preserve colonial rule in France during the war of independence

Israel's foreign ministry has retorted to a US Department of State press release which refused to acknowledge Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, saying that every country is entitled to choose its own capital.

Authorities in Algeria cited security concerns and reasons of public policy for the denial of the burial on their soil.

Mohamed Merah, the al Qaeda-linked French gunman of Algerian descent, will be buried in France as Algeria has refused to accept his body.

The saga of French Muslims took an ugly turn earlier this month when Islamic militant Mohamed Merah was identified as the gunman in mass killings in Toulouse that appeared to have been driven by bias.

The father of Mohamed Merah, the Toulouse man of Algerian descent who killed seven people and was shot dead by police, will sue a French police unit over his son's death.

Ahead of next month's French presidential election, incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy has already complained that there are too many immigrants in France.

Like Nosferatu, Merah was also a merciless killer who seemed to have not a whit of morality nor restraint.