THE proceedings of a meeting in the western Algerian port of Oran today will be keenly followed by senior officials at many major North East companies. The 151st extraordinary meeting of the Opec conference takes place amid high expectations that it will sanction cuts to global oil production, triggering a speedy rise in the price of a barrel of oil.
A FAILED Algerian asylum seeker with links to Islamic extremists is still living in Scotland five years after he was ordered to leave. Saber Zeghdaou, 34, admits he 'actively supported' a group which planned to attack an Algerian port.
QUESTION How did more than 100 residents of the town of Baltimore, Co. Cork, come to be captured by Algerian pirates and sold as slaves in the 17th century? IN JUNE 1631, a raid on the port of Baltimore in west Cork by Algerian pirates resulted in around 100 people who lived in the town being carried off. The exact number taken was never known.
POLICE were last night quizzing two North Africans arrested during a terror raid on Holyhead Port. The Algerian man and woman were arrested under the Terrorism Act in a pre-planned swoop at the port last Friday morning, but details were made public only yesterday.
LOOKING like a retired bankmanager in his black suit and tie, Maurice el Medioni is an unlikely piano legend. But once he launched into his Bienvenue welcome song and the balance of piano over drum kit, bass and Arabic darbuka drum was sorted, Medioni showed his prowess with his light-fingered melodies flowered with delicate ornaments and gracenotes. Medioni's unique speciality is his Arabic-style boogiewoogie piano. He created it in the Jewish quarter of the Algerian port city of Oran in the Forties, picked up from the American soldiers in town during the war.
An illegal immigrant wanted for allegedly slashing the face of a young Plymouth mum evaded capture at the city ferry port as he re- entered the country, The Herald has learned. Algerian-born Ahmed Shiri Ismain is wanted by police on suspicion of viciously slashing the face, neck and arm of the teenage mum as she stood with a friend at the junction of Royal Parade and Armada Way on March 14, 2007.
POLICE have until lunchtime today to quiz two terror suspects arrested at a North Wales port. The Algerian man and woman were detained in a swoop at Holyhead 11 days ago.
A RANSOM demand has been made for the lost merchant ship Arctic Sea, Finnish media said yesterday, but the whereabouts of the vessel were still unknown in a saga looking increasingly like the plot of a Tom Clancy thriller The demand - which has not been confirmed as genuine - was put to the ship's Finnish owners, according to Finland's National Bureau of Investigation. The report was the latest fragment of information to surface about the missing ship and its 15-member Russian crew, which has been cloaked in mystery since the vessel was boarded by up to 12 armed men masquerading as anti-narcotics ofcers in high-speed inflatable boats bearing police markings near the Swedish islands of Oland and Gotland on July 24.
... a $1.3 million cargo of timber to the Algerian port of Bejaia on August 4. Twelve hours after the...
According to Roger Bolton in the first of a new season of the listeners' complaints programme Feedback, on Radio Four (Friday), his team had been 'inundated with, in fact, drowned by' complaints about the enormous coverage of the Pope's death. Some described it as hysterical, obsessive, slushy and disproportionate, particularly as practising Christians were now a minority in this country.
... We Forgot to Remember (Monday), Michael Portillo tries to show how much myth and propaganda there i... at its Mers-el-Kebir naval base near the Algerian port of Oran at about the same time. The Battle of...
MARITIME chiefs admitted they always knew where the "missing" freighter Arctic Sea was, but agreed to keep silent in a bid to bring a dangerous hijacking drama to a bloodless end. For more than two weeks, the freighter seemed to have vanished in the Atlantic Ocean.
... Cape Verde, thousands of miles from the Algerian port at which it was to have docked on August 4. R...
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