ALGIERS- Minister of National Planning, Environment and the City Amara Benyounes said Thursday in Algiers that his department was developing a sustainable development strategy to promote civic and environmental culture for city beautification.

ALGIERS- Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Rachid Harraoubia said Thursday in Algiers that many Algerian researchers and teachers who left the country during the “difficult” years to settle abroad “are back to the country.”

ALGIERS- Head of Socialists Forces Front (FFS) Hocine Ait Ahmed called Thursday for Algerians to remain united to build a State of right and democracy.

PARIS (France)- A documentary, broadcasted Thursday night by French channel France3, brought Incontrovertible evidence that it was definitely the terrorists of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) who killed on May 21st, 1996, the seven French monks of Tibhirine in Medea, two months after their abduction from Notre-Dame-de-l’Atlas Monastry during the period of terrorism.

CAIRO- Algeria has reiterated Thursday in Cairo its call on all Syrian parties to end violence, mass killings and destruction in Syria.