Cairo - The North African wing of the al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility for two car bombings in Algeria this week that killed 12 people, the al-Jazeera television network reported.
In an audio recording, a spokesman claimed Wednesday's bombings in Bouira, about 100 kilometres south-east of the capital, Algiers, were carried out by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the news network said late Thursday.
The two car bombs detonated in the city centre. In one attack, a suicide bomber drove his car into a military administration office in Bouira. In the second bombing, a suicide attacker drove his car toward a hotel but at the last moment diverted it to smash into a bus before exploding.
Cairo - Palestinian officials holding talks in Egypt on ending divisions among the various Palestinian groups said Tuesday that talks between all Palestinian groups are to resume at the end of next month.
Cairo - Investigations have not revealed whether the fire that broke out in the Egyptian Parliament building was due to an electrical spark, Egyptian prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud said Wednesday.
