Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Relations between Algeria and its former coloniser, France, have rarely been straightforward. After hitting a low point in July ...

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An increasingly tense dispute between Paris and Algiers has spiralled into what French diplomatic sources told Euronews is the “biggest diplomatic crisis” since Algeria gained independence in 1962.

Algeria has capitulated. After nearly two years of diplomatic belligerence, retaliatory posturing, and calculated hostility toward Paris, Algiers has quietly conceded defeat and moved to restore ...

French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Tuesday returned to France after a year-long imprisonment in Algeria that further strained troubled ties between Paris and its former colony, supporters and ...

France vowed a decisive response after Algeria announced it would expel more French embassy staff, the latest escalation in a dispute pitting the North African nation against its former colonial ruler ...

April 14 (UPI) --Tensions between France and Algeria seemingly escalated after Algerian officials requested 12 French embassy to leave its borders within 48 hours, according to France's foreign ...

PARIS — Paris announced on Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomats in a tit-for-tat escalation with Algiers, deepening the crisis between the two countries. "France takes note with dismay of ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told reporters that France would 'respond immediately, firmly, and in a manner proportionate to the harm it is doing to our interests' — Lou BENOIST France's ...

The Algerian Senate toned down some of the original provisions in the bill, such as a call for apologies and reparations from France.

The bill states that France holds “legal responsibility for its colonial past in Algeria and the tragedies it caused”. It lists the “crimes of French colonisation”, including nuclear tests, ...

PARIS — France said Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two ...