A country of northwest Africa bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. Algeria gained its independence from France in1962 after a long terrorist and guerrilla campaign. Algiers is the capital and the largest city. Population, 16,94 阿尔及利亚非洲西北部滨邻地中海的国家。经过长期的恐怖主义活动和游击战争,阿尔及利亚于1962年脱离法国统治宣布独立。阿尔及尔是首都及最大的城市。人口16,948,000
The capital and largest city of Algeria, in the north on the Bay of Algiers, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. An ancient North African port, Algiers was captured by French forces in1830 and was lat 阿尔及尔阿尔及利亚的首都和最大的城市,位于地中海海湾阿尔及尔湾的北面。阿尔及尔是一个历史悠久的北非港口,于1830年为法军所占领,以后又成为阿尔及利亚独立运动的中心。人口1,523,000
Algiers is the capital and the largest city. 阿尔及尔是首都及最大的城市。
algiers
[ noun ] an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria <noun.location>
"The Algerian negotiators thereupon allowed the plane to take off for Algiers and then took the hijackers at their word.
Defense attorneys had called Simpson to testify, hoping to show that no passengers were threatened while the plane was on the ground in Algiers.
The hijackers killed two Kuwaiti passengers before the ordeal ended in Algiers on Wednesday.
He participated in the French government in exile in Algiers and was named commissioner for prisoners and deportees.
The council proclaimed the Palestinian state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip at a meeting in Algiers, Algeria, on Nov. 15.
The settlement of the U.S. claims must now be approved by the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, established in the Dutch city of The Hague under the 1981 Algiers Accords.
Public buildings were set afire by young rioters in several districts of Algiers.
Shultz said the Palestine National Council, the legislative arm of the PLO, had taken some "significant" steps during its recent meeting in Algiers.
His address came hours after troops fired machine guns into a crowd of more than 10,000 in the Algiers district of Bab-el-Oued. Witnesses estimated that 25 to 30 people were killed.
She said that during a stop in Algiers, the hijackers said they would start killing Americans if the airplane was not refueled.
It would be the first statement by Bendjedid, who also is chief of the armed forces, since riots flared in Algiers last Tuesday night.
The Palestine National Council declared a Palestinian state during a Nov. 15 session in Algiers.
Horani said no date for the council session has been set, although it is supposed to be held this month or early next month in Algiers.
I didn't speak any more words with him. One week before the crisis took place I was in the bookfair at a seminar. One of the journalists asked me: what do you expect in Algiers?
President Reagan says before the declaration in Algiers that the Palestinians' implicit recognition of Israel's right to exist "would be some progress" toward achieving lasting peace in the Middle East.
The Army Corps of Engineers said the tip of the saltwater slid by mile 99 _ three miles past the city's water intake at Algiers _ on Thursday.
Algerian Oil Minister Sadek Boussena, who left the meeting Monday to return to Algiers for a legislative meeting, had pressed for retaining the current ceiling of 19.5 million barrels a day.
The Palestine National Council meets in Algiers this weekend to consider such a move.
"With this clarification of what were ambiguities in the Algiers document, we hope fervently that the United States will open a dialogue with the PLO," said Rita Hauser of the International Center for Peace in the Middle East.
The Interior Ministry says 176 people, mostly young men, were killed in the six days of violence that rocked Algiers and a number of provincial towns.
But despite the Algiers Accords, the military equipment, much of which was already paid for, was then impounded by the U.S. government to prevent its use in the Iran-Iraq War.
At a meeting in Algiers, one official also called for renewed ties with Egypt, but said Cairo's Camp David accords with the U.S. and Israel should be canceled.
Hostages freed in Algiers from a hijacked Kuwait Airways jet came home Thursday to a tumultuous reception by thousands of people after being released by nine Shiite Moslem gunmen, who slipped away.
As Arab leaders gathered in Algiers for the start of a three-day summit to show support for the Palestinian uprising in the Israel-occupied territories, the PLO declared its willingness to recognize Israel and accept a two-state solution.
Thank you." It was the fifth time since the plane landed in Algiers early Wednesday that the hijackers have broadcast appeals from hostages for the Kuwait government to release 17 men convicted on terrorist charges in Kuwait.
In accepting 242, the Algiers meeting coupled it with the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
He sent a high-level delegation, but said he was too busy with the war to come to Algiers.
To coordinate logistics the Algerian agriculture minister, Noureddine Keddara, visited Tunisia on Wednesday and Driss Basri, Morocco's interior and information minister, was in Algiers.
Virally had been one of the three third-nation arbitrators at the tribunal, which was established by the 1981 Algiers Accords.
"We learned how to complain from great teachers, the French," says a Paris-educated Algerian editor, finishing his fresh shrimp and baby squid lunch at a seafront restaurant in Algiers.