Seven candidates nominated for WHO director-general position
Seven candidates have been put forward by World Health Organization (WHO) member states to succeed Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, whose term ends in August 2027.
31.10.2026 - 13:00
Boufarik to Moscow through NATO airspace: Algeria’s military airlift raises alarm in Poland
Since early October, Algerian military transport aircraft have been crossing Polish airspace en route to Moscow. What are they carrying? Nobody knows. And that is precisely the problem. Rather than provide answers, Algiers has chosen to cry disinformation.
29.10.2026 - 11:00
Amazon wildfires choke Brazilian city as El Niño intensifies drought
Manaus, Brazil’s largest city in the Amazon, has been blanketed in smoke for weeks as wildfires spread across the rainforest during an unusually severe dry season. The fires have forced school closures, disrupted public activities and raised health concerns for more than two million residents.
28.10.2026 - 21:00
Spain high-speed train collision kills 64, injures over 100
A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said in one of Europe’s deadliest such disasters this century.
28.10.2026 - 14:30
Spain high-speed train collision kills 30: AFP
A collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid killed 30 people on Wednesday, and the toll could rise, regional authorities said in Spain’s second such disaster this year.
28.10.2026 - 11:36
Africa Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 cases
Africa’s latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said on Tuesday, with almost 5,000 fatalities.
27.10.2026 - 20:30
OpenAI announces three AI-generated discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics
The company says its models have produced results challenging a longstanding computing theory, resolving major mathematical conjectures and proving the existence of key particle-physics theories.
27.10.2026 - 17:30
Niger: Algeria’s army moves into a former French military base
Sixty years spent denouncing France, five days to move into its old quarters. Algeria’s army, which has not ventured beyond its borders since 1973, is reportedly preparing to deploy to Niger, where it will occupy a former base used by France’s Operation Barkhane. Its mission: to guard oil installations on behalf of a military junta. Algerian anti-imperialism has found itself a home — in the former colonial power’s barracks.
27.10.2026 - 12:00
New levy on non-EU parcels kicks in Sunday
The European Union will from Sunday slap a two-euro ($2.25) handling fee on packages from outside the 27-nation bloc in a bid to curb the influx from China.
26.10.2026 - 16:00
Algeria: Tebboune adviser’s Geneva trip exposes power struggle between presidency and military
On October 24, Abdelatif Belkaïm, a presidential adviser close to Abdelmadjid Tebboune, made a same-day return trip from Algiers to Geneva for a meeting lasting just minutes with a man implicated in the Farid Bencheikh affair, a high treason case under investigation by Algeria’s military judiciary. Photographs of the encounter surfaced that evening. Beyond the trip itself, the episode has brought the power struggle between the presidency and the military high command into the open.
26.10.2026 - 11:30