Tempers Flare Across the Middle East
Louiza Ammi / Abaca
Algeria, February 12
The Algerian foreign minister, Mourad Medelci, has said the government plans to lift the "state of emergency" that has existed since the country's 1992 civil war. Algerians defied a government ban on protests and a massive deployment of riot police to rally in the capital on February 12.
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