Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika returned home on Sunday after receving medical treatment in a Swiss hospital, the Algerian presidency has confirmed, amid protests against the ailing president's bid for a fifth term in office. Bouteflika has landed at a military airport south of...

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British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday that there was momentum behind a move to stop Brexit, warning that unless lawmakers backed the government’s exit deal on Tuesday then Brexit could be reversed. “We have an opportunity now to leave on March 29 or shortly thereafter and...

Striking train workers and students shut the Algerian capital’s rail network and most of the country’s secondary schools Sunday, in protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s fifth term bid, witnesses said. No trains, metros, trams or buses left or circulated within Algiers,...