Algeria

Algerian security forces killed 21 Muslim fundamentalists over the past four days, including one shot by troops hunting men who slit the throats of two teen-age sisters, Algerian security officers said Saturday. Algeria's official news agency APS, received in Tunis and quoting an Algerian security force statement, said 20 armed militants were killed during search operations between Tuesday and Friday in nine villages and cities, including the Algerian capital.

An Algerian radio journalist has died after being shot in the head--the second reporter to be killed within 24 hours from attacks blamed on Islamic militants.

An Algerian man who entered the United States with a false passport and later met two of the Sept. 11 hijackers in San Diego has been deported to Algeria, immigration officials announced Friday.

Algerians voted overwhelmingly to turn the page on a decade of brutal civil war by offering a partial amnesty to hundreds of Islamic militants, the country's interior minister said Friday.

Telephone records demonstrate ties between a Montreal woman arrested at a remote Vermont border crossing last month and two Algerians linked to an alleged bomb plot in Washington state, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Americans arrived in Indianapolis for the World Basketball Championships knowing that, without the likes of Shaquille O'Neal and Tim Duncan on the roster, they would be tested by a tough international field.