Education: Remedial classes according to each school’s lateness ALGIERS- Minister of Education Boubekeur Benbouzid pointed out on Thursday in Algiers that remedial classes, after the last strike launched by teachers unions, will be done according to each school’s lateness. In a statement to the press on sidelines of the third ordinary session of the National Democratic Rally (RND) in which he took part, the Minister underlined that the remedial classes "can not be unified because the strike was not followed the same way in all schools." Adding that "some schools have not followed the strike, whereas others do it partially," Benbouzid explained that remedial classes will be done "according to the strikes that occurred in the schools," and "the choice" is left for them to assess lateness and therefore schedule the concerned classes.

Water resources: Wells built without authorization to be listed
ALGIERS- A detailed inventory of wells having been built without authorisation in the country provinces will be carried out, Water Resource Minister Abdelmalek Sellal announced Thursday in Algiers During a Council of Nation’s session devoted to oral questions, the minister said that setting such an inventory is intended to assess the impact of wells’ random drilling on the ground-water sheets in order to regulate their administrative situation case by case. About the instruction of prohibiting wells drilling in four provinces in the country's southern region, the minister said the information was unfounded and that only the prefects were entitled to take such measures.

Euro-deputies support EP resolution on Goldstone Report
BRUSSELS (Belgium)- Two political groups of the European Parliament (EP) on Thursday welcomed the adoption by the EP in Strasbourg of a resolution on the recommendations of Goldstone Report regarding Israel's violations of international humanitarian law during the Zionist military aggression against the Gaza Strip. "The European United Left/the Nordic Green Left Group (EUL/NGL) welcomes the Goldstone Report and calls for the immediate adoption of its findings by the EU member states and the implementation of its recommendations," Kyriacos Triantaphyllides said on EUL/NGL group's website. "We demand that no up-grading of EU-Israel Association Agreement is conceded given the violations committed by Israel," the group said, adding that "for the first time, a resolution voted in the European Parliament acknowledges Israeli's violations of international humanitarian law."

Arab health ministers commend efficient laws to foster solidarity CAIRO (Egypt)- Participants in the 34th session of Arab Health Ministers Council underlined Thursday in Cairo the need for setting up efficient laws n view to fostering solidarity and preserving Arab rights amid globalisation. Arab League General Secretary Amr Moussa recalled the challenges the region is facing, due to the Israeli occupation, the financial crisis as well as those emanating from climate change, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Facing these challenges, we must set up efficient laws likely to encourage Arab solidarity in the field of health, he added.

Niger: Release of Mamadou Tandja, a constant concern for the AU

ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia) – The African Union (AU) on Thursday said that the release of the toppled Niger's President Mamadou Tandja "is a constant concern" for the Pan-African organization. "Release of Tandja is a constant concern for the AU," declared to the press AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra. "It's both a moral and political duty," he said at the end of the AU Peace and Security Council meeting.

Towards the creation of a museum of water in Toudja (Bejaia)

BEJAIA (Algeria)- The creation of a museum of water in Toudja, 30 km west of Bejaia, is among the main projects of the "Gehimab" association of Abderrahmane Mira University, which also intends to rehabilitate all the Roman sites. The project aims at highlighting the site which hosted the ancient Tubusuctu, present Tiklat, a colony of Roman Legion's veterans, founded by Augustus in 145. Its main attraction remains an aqueduct, built with advanced techniques and in conditions that are up till unknown, and through which drinking water was brought to the city of Bejaia.