German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for talks on the second day of her visit to the North African country.
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German police raid radical Islam suspects ... said that she wanted to establish a gas partnership with Algeria to diversify Germany's energy sources. She has also called for women's rights to be strengthened in the Islamist country. During Merkel's visit a German construction company has secured a contract worth around one billion euros to build the world's third-largest mosque in Algiers. The German leader's return to Berlin was delayed for over an hour due to damage to her German Air Force aircraft.
(Deutsche Welle)
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